Enclosed CJK Letters and Months

Enclosed CJK Letters and Months is a Unicode block containing circled and parenthesized Katakana, Hangul, and CJK ideographs. Also included in the block are miscellaneous glyphs that would more likely fit in CJK Compatibility or Enclosed Alphanumerics: a few unit abbreviations, circled numbers from 21 to 50, and circled multiples of 10 from 10 to 80 enclosed in black squares (representing speed limit signs).

Not to be confused with Enclosed Ideographic Supplement, Enclosed Alphanumerics, or Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement.
For a list of all CJK characters encoded in Unicode, see CJK Unified Ideographs.

Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
RangeU+3200..U+32FF
(256 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsHangul (62 char.)
Katakana (47 char.)
Common (146 char.)
Assigned255 code points
Unused1 reserved code points
Source standardsARIB STD-B24
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)191 (+191)
1.0.1 (1992)190 (-1)
1.1 (1993)202 (+12)
3.2 (2002)232 (+30)
4.0 (2003)241 (+9)
4.1 (2005)242 (+1)
5.2 (2009)254 (+12)
12.1 (2019)255 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
In Unicode 1.0.1, during the process of unifying with ISO 10646, one character from the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block was relocated to the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, and the encircled katakana letters were re-arranged.[3]

Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Enclosed CJK Letters and Ideographs.[4] As part of the process of unification with ISO 10646 for version 1.1, Unicode version 1.0.1 relocated the Japanese Industrial Standard Symbol from the code point U+32FF at the end of the block to U+3004, and re-arranged the encircled katakana letters (U+32D0–U+32FE) from iroha order to gojūon order.[3]

The Reiwa symbol (㋿) was added to Enclosed CJK Letters and Months in Unicode 12.1, continuing from the existing era symbols in the (fully allocated by that point) CJK Compatibility block (Meiji ㍾, Taishō ㍽, Shōwa ㍼, Heisei ㍻).

Block
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+320x ㈀ ㈁ ㈂ ㈃ ㈄ ㈅ ㈆ ㈇ ㈈ ㈉ ㈊ ㈋ ㈌ ㈍ ㈎ ㈏
U+321x ㈐ ㈑ ㈒ ㈓ ㈔ ㈕ ㈖ ㈗ ㈘ ㈙ ㈚ ㈛ ㈜ ㈝ ㈞
U+322x ㈠ ㈡ ㈢ ㈣ ㈤ ㈥ ㈦ ㈧ ㈨ ㈩ ㈪ ㈫ ㈬ ㈭ ㈮ ㈯
U+323x ㈰ ㈱ ㈲ ㈳ ㈴ ㈵ ㈶ ㈷ ㈸ ㈹ ㈺ ㈻ ㈼ ㈽ ㈾ ㈿
U+324x ㉀ ㉁ ㉂ ㉃ ㉄ ㉅ ㉆ ㉇ ㉈ ㉉ ㉊ ㉋ ㉌ ㉍ ㉎ ㉏
U+325x ㉐ ㉑ ㉒ ㉓ ㉔ ㉕ ㉖ ㉗ ㉘ ㉙ ㉚ ㉛ ㉜ ㉝ ㉞ ㉟
U+326x ㉠ ㉡ ㉢ ㉣ ㉤ ㉥ ㉦ ㉧ ㉨ ㉩ ㉪ ㉫ ㉬ ㉭ ㉮ ㉯
U+327x ㉰ ㉱ ㉲ ㉳ ㉴ ㉵ ㉶ ㉷ ㉸ ㉹ ㉺ ㉻ ㉼ ㉽ ㉾ ㉿
U+328x ㊀ ㊁ ㊂ ㊃ ㊄ ㊅ ㊆ ㊇ ㊈ ㊉ ㊊ ㊋ ㊌ ㊍ ㊎ ㊏
U+329x ㊐ ㊑ ㊒ ㊓ ㊔ ㊕ ㊖ ㊗ ㊘ ㊙ ㊚ ㊛ ㊜ ㊝ ㊞ ㊟
U+32Ax ㊠ ㊡ ㊢ ㊣ ㊤ ㊥ ㊦ ㊧ ㊨ ㊩ ㊪ ㊫ ㊬ ㊭ ㊮ ㊯
U+32Bx ㊰ ㊱ ㊲ ㊳ ㊴ ㊵ ㊶ ㊷ ㊸ ㊹ ㊺ ㊻ ㊼ ㊽ ㊾ ㊿
U+32Cx ㋀ ㋁ ㋂ ㋃ ㋄ ㋅ ㋆ ㋇ ㋈ ㋉ ㋊ ㋋ ㋌ ㋍ ㋎ ㋏
U+32Dx ㋐ ㋑ ㋒ ㋓ ㋔ ㋕ ㋖ ㋗ ㋘ ㋙ ㋚ ㋛ ㋜ ㋝ ㋞ ㋟
U+32Ex ㋠ ㋡ ㋢ ㋣ ㋤ ㋥ ㋦ ㋧ ㋨ ㋩ ㋪ ㋫ ㋬ ㋭ ㋮ ㋯
U+32Fx ㋰ ㋱ ㋲ ㋳ ㋴ ㋵ ㋶ ㋷ ㋸ ㋹ ㋺ ㋻ ㋼ ㋽ ㋾ ㋿
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey area indicates non-assigned code point

Emoji

The Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block contains two emoji: U+3297 and U+3299.[5][6]

The block has four standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the two emoji, both of which default to a text presentation.[7]

Emoji variation sequences
U+32973299
base code point㊗㊙
base+VS15 (text)㊗︎㊙︎
base+VS16 (emoji)㊗️㊙️

History
  • U+32FF JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL STANDARD SYMBOL (〄) was moved to U+3004 in Unicode version 1.0.1, to make Unicode a subset of ISO 10646.[8] U+32FF was defined as SQUARE ERA NAME REIWA (㋿) with the release of Unicode 12.1.[2]

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months block:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+3200..321C, 3220..3243, 3260..327B, 327F..32B0, 32D0..32FE190(to be determined)
L2/11-438[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3]N4182Edberg, Peter (22 December 2011), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
1.1U+32C0..32CB12(to be determined)
3.2U+3251..325F, 32B1..32BF30L2/99-238Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 15 July 1999
N2093Addition of medical symbols and enclosed numbers, 13 September 1999
L2/00-010N2103Umamaheswaran, V. S. (5 January 2000), "8.8", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13--16
L2/00-296N2256Sato, T. K. (4 September 2000), Circled Numbers in JIS X 0213
4.0U+321D..321E, 3250, 327C..327D, 32CC..32CF9L2/99-353N2056"3", Amendment of the part concerning the Korean characters in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1998 amendment 5, 29 July 1999
L2/99-380Proposal for a New Work item (NP) to amend the Korean part in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993, 7 December 1999
L2/99-380.3Annex B, Special characters compatible with KPS 9566-97 (To be extended), 7 December 1999
L2/00-084N2182"3", Amendment of the part concerning the Korean characters in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1998 amendment 5 (Cover page and outline of proposal L2/99-380), 7 December 1999
L2/99-382Whistler, Ken (9 December 1999), "2.3", Comments to accompany a U.S. NO vote on JTC1 N5999, SC2 N3393, New Work item proposal (NP) for an amendment of the Korean part of ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993
L2/00-066N2170 (pdf, doc)"3", The technical justification of the proposal to amend the Korean character part of ISO/IEC 10646-1 (proposed addition of 79 symbolic characters), 10 February 2000
L2/00-073N2167Karlsson, Kent (2 March 2000), Comments on DPRK New Work Item proposal on Korean characters
L2/00-285N2244Proposal for the Addition of 82 Symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, 10 August 2000
L2/00-291Everson, Michael (30 August 2000), Comments to Korean proposals (L2/00-284 - 289)
N2282Report of the meeting of the Korean script ad hoc group, 21 September 2000
L2/01-349N2374RProposal to add of 70 symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, 3 September 2001
L2/01-387N2390Kim, Kyongsok (13 October 2001), ROK's Comments about DPRK's proposal, WG2 N 2374, to add 70 symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
L2/01-388N2392Kim, Kyongsok (16 October 2001), A Report of Korean Script ad hoc group meeting on Oct. 15, 2001
L2/01-420Whistler, Ken (30 October 2001), "f. Miscellaneous symbol additions from DPRK standard", WG2 (Singapore) Resolution Consent Docket for UTC
L2/01-458N2407Umamaheswaran, V. S. (16 November 2001), Request to Korean ad hoc group to generate mapping tables between ROK and DPRK national standards
L2/02-372N2453 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (30 October 2002), "M42.14 item j", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 42
4.1U+327E1L2/04-267N2815Ahn, Dae Hyuk (18 June 2004), Proposal to add Postal Code Mark to BMP of UCS
N2753 (pdf, doc)"9.9", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 45; IBM Software Lab, Markham, Ontario, Canada; 2004-06-21/24, 26 December 2004
5.2U+3244..324F12N3353 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (10 October 2007), "M51.32", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-259Suignard, Michel (2 August 2007), Japanese TV Symbols
L2/07-391N3341Suignard, Michel (18 September 2007), Japanese TV Symbols
L2/08-077R2N3397Suignard, Michel (11 March 2008), Japanese TV symbols
L2/08-128Iancu, Laurențiu (22 March 2008), Names and allocation of some Japanese TV symbols from N3397
L2/08-158Pentzlin, Karl (16 April 2008), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"
L2/08-188N3468Sekiguchi, Masahiro (22 April 2008), Collected comments on Japanese TV Symbols (WG2 N3397)
L2/08-077R3N3469Suignard, Michel (23 April 2008), Japanese TV symbols
L2/08-215Pentzlin, Karl (7 May 2008), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"
L2/08-289Pentzlin, Karl (5 August 2008), Proposal to rename and reassign some Japanese TV Symbols from L2/08-077R3
L2/08-292Stötzner, Andreas (6 August 2008), Improvement suggestions for n3469
L2/08-307Scherer, Markus (8 August 2008), Feedback on the Japanese TV Symbols Proposal (L2/08-077R3)
L2/08-318N3453 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (13 August 2008), "M52.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
L2/08-161R2Moore, Lisa (5 November 2008), "Consensus 115-C17", UTC #115 Minutes, Approve 186 Japanese TV symbols for encoding in a future version of the standard.
12.1U+32FF1N4953 (pdf, doc)"9.3.27", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 23 March 2018
L2/17-429Orita, Tetsuji (19 December 2017), Request to reserve the code point for square Japanese new era name (SC2 N4577)
L2/18-039Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Cook, Richard (19 January 2018), "22. CJK", Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals
L2/18-007Moore, Lisa (19 March 2018), "C.8", UTC #154 Minutes
L2/18-115Moore, Lisa (9 May 2018), "C.8", UTC #155 Minutes
N4949Update on SC2 N4577 "Request to reserve the code point for square Japanese new era name", 23 May 2018
L2/18-220Whistler, Ken (16 July 2018), Unicode 12.1 Planning Considerations
L2/18-183Moore, Lisa (20 November 2018), "B.13.3.1 Unicode 12.1 planning considerations", UTC #156 Minutes
N5020 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (11 January 2019), "10.3.9 Code point for Square Japanese New Era Name", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
L2/19-008Moore, Lisa (8 February 2019), "B.13.4 Unicode V12.1", UTC #158 Minutes
L2/19-094Orita, Tetsuji (1 April 2019), Announcement of Japanese new era name
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429
  3. Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents

See also

References
  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  3. "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 3 November 1992. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  4. "3.8: Block-by-Block Charts" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. version 1.0. Unicode Consortium.
  5. "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 5 September 2023.
  6. "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 1 February 2023.
  7. "UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
  8. "Notice: Unicode 1.0.1" (PDF). Unicode.
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