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Mapping of Unicode characters - Basic Multilingual Plane

The first plane (plane 0), the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), is where most characters have been assigned so far. The BMP contains characters for almost all modern languages, and a large number of special characters. Most of the allocated code points in the BMP are used to encode Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) characters.

The graphic on the right is a visual roadmap to the Basic Multilingual Plane. The colours in use are:

• Black= Latin scripts and symbols
• Light Blue = Linguistic scripts
• Blue = Other European scripts
• Orange = Middle Eastern and SW Asian scripts
• Light Orange = African scripts
• Green = South Asian scripts
• Purple = Southeast Asian scripts
• Red = East Asian scripts
• Light Red = Unified CJK Han
• Yellow = Aboriginal scripts
• Magenta = Symbols
• Dark Grey = Diacritics
• Light Grey = UTF-16 surrogates and private use
• Cyan = Miscellaneous characters
• White = Unused

As of Unicode 4.1, The BMP includes the following scripts:

• Basic Latin (0000–007F)
• Latin-1 Supplement (0080–00FF)
• Latin Extended-A (0100–017F)
• Latin Extended-B (0180–024F)
• IPA Extensions (0250–02AF)
• Spacing Modifier Letters (02B0–02FF)
• Combining Diacritical Marks (0300–036F)
• Greek and Coptic (0370–03FF)
• Cyrillic (0400–04FF)
• Cyrillic Supplement (0500–052F)
• Armenian (0530–058F)
• Hebrew (0590–05FF)
• Arabic (0600–06FF)
• Syriac (0700–074F)
• Arabic Supplement (0750–077F)
• Thaana (0780–07BF)
• Indic scripts:
  • Devanagari (0900–097F)
  • Bengali (0980–09FF)
  • Gurmukhi (0A00–0A7F)
  • Gujarati (0A80–0AFF)
  • Oriya (0B00–0B7F)
  • Tamil (0B80–0BFF)
  • Telugu (0C00–0C7F)
  • Kannada (0C80–0CFF)
  • Malayalam (0D00–0D7F)
  • Sinhala (0D80–0DFF)
• Thai (0E00–0E7F)
• Lao (0E80–0EFF)
• Tibetan (0F00–0FFF)
• Burmese (1000–109F)
• Georgian (10A0–10FF)
• Hangul Jamo (1100–11FF)
• Ethiopic (1200–137F)
• Ethiopic Supplement (1380–139F)
• Cherokee (13A0–13FF)
• Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (1400–167F)
• Ogham (1680–169F)
• Runic (16A0–16FF)
• Filipino scripts:
  • Tagalog (1700–171F)
  • Hanunóo (1720–173F)
  • Buhid (1740–175F)
  • Tagbanwa (1760–177F)
• Khmer (1780–17FF)
• Mongolian (1800–18AF)
• Limbu (1900–194F)
• Tai Le (1950–197F)
• New Tai Lue (1980–19DF)
• Khmer Symbols (19E0–19FF)
• Buginese (1A00–1A1F)
• Phonetic Extensions (1D00–1D7F)
• Phonetic Extensions Supplement (1D80–1DBF)
• Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement (1DC0–1DFF)
• Latin Extended Additional (1E00–1EFF)
• Greek Extended (1F00–1FFF)
• Symbols:
  • General Punctuation (2000–206F)
  • Superscripts and Subscripts (2070–209F)
  • Currency Symbols (20A0–20CF)
  • Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols (20D0–20FF)
  • Letterlike Symbols (2100–214F)
  • Number Forms (2150–218F)
  • Arrows (2190–21FF)
  • Mathematical Operators (2200–22FF)
  • Miscellaneous Technical (2300–23FF)
  • Control Pictures (2400–243F)
  • Optical Character Recognition (2440–245F)
  • Enclosed Alphanumerics (2460–24FF)
  • Box Drawing (2500–257F)
  • Block Elements (2580–259F)
  • Geometric Shapes (25A0–25FF)
  • Miscellaneous Symbols (2600–26FF)
  • Dingbats (2700–27BF)
  • Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A (27C0–27EF)
  • Supplemental Arrows-A (27F0–27FF)
  • Braille Patterns (2800–28FF)
  • Supplemental Arrows-B (2900–297F)
  • Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B (2980–29FF)
  • Supplemental Mathematical Operators (2A00–2AFF)
  • Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (2B00–2BFF)
• Glagolitic (2C00–2C5F)
• Coptic (2C80–2CFF)
• Georgian Supplement (2D00–2D2F)
• Tifinagh (2D30–2D7F)
• Ethiopic Extended (2D80–2DDF)
• Supplemental Punctuation (2E00–2E7F)
• CJK Radicals Supplement (2E80–2EFF)
• Kangxi Radicals (2F00–2FDF)
• Ideographic Description Characters (2FF0–2FFF)
• CJK Symbols and Punctuation (3000–303F)
• Hiragana (3040–309F)
• Katakana (30A0–30FF)
• Bopomofo (3100–312F)
• Hangul Compatibility Jamo (3130–318F)
• Kanbun (3190–319F)
• Bopomofo Extended (31A0–31BF)
• CJK Strokes (31C0–31EF)
• Katakana Phonetic Extensions (31F0–31FF)
• Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (3200–32FF)
• CJK Compatibility (3300–33FF)
• CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A (3400–4DBF)
• Yijing Hexagram Symbols (4DC0–4DFF)
• CJK Unified Ideographs (4E00–9FFF), also see Han Unification
• Yi Syllables (A000–A48F)
• Yi Radicals (A490–A4CF)
• Modifier Tone Letters (A700–A71F)
• Syloti Nagri (A800–A82F)
• Hangul Syllables (AC00–D7AF)
• High Surrogates (D800–DB7F)
• High Private Use Surrogates (DB80–DBFF)
• Low Surrogates (DC00–DFFF)
• Private Use Area (E000–F8FF)
• CJK Compatibility Ideographs (F900–FAFF)
• Alphabetic Presentation Forms (FB00–FB4F)
• Arabic Presentation Forms-A (FB50–FDFF)
• Variation Selectors (FE00–FE0F)
• Vertical Forms (FE10–FE1F)
• Combining Half Marks (FE20–FE2F)
• CJK Compatibility Forms (FE30–FE4F)
• Small Form Variants (FE50–FE6F)
• Arabic Presentation Forms-B (FE70–FEFF)
• Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (FF00–FFEF)
• Specials (FFF0–FFFF)

Several scripts are expected to be included in the BMP in the next revision of Unicode. These scripts, and their proposed code point ranges, are the following:

• N'Ko (Mandekan) (07C0–07FF)
• Balinese (1B00–1B7F)
• Lepcha (Rong) (1C00–1C4F)
• Latin Extended-C (2C60–2C7F)
• Santali (Ol Cemet' / Ol Chiki) (2DE0–2DFF)
• Vai (A500–A61F)
• Latin Extended-D (A720–A7FF)
• Phags-pa (A840–A87F)
• Saurashtra (AB00–AB5F)

Several other scripts are proposed for inclusion in the BMP, including:

• Avestan & Pahlavi (0800–085F)
• Cham (18B0–18FF)
• Batak (1A20–1A5F)
• Lanna (Old Tai Lue) (1A80–1AEF)
• Meithei/Manipuri (1C80–1CDF)
• Varang Kshiti (AA00–AA3F)
• Sorang Sompeng (AA40–AA6F)

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Basic Multilingual Plane", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki