Characters
Characters in GB2312 are arranged in a 94x94 grid (as in ISO 2022), and the two-byte codepoint of each character is expressed in the kuten (or quwei) form, which specifies a row (ku or qu) and the position of the character within the row (ten or wei).
The rows (numbered from 1 to 94) contain characters as follows:
- 01-09, comprising punctuation and other special characters; also Hiragana, Katakana, Greek, Cyrillic, Pinyin, Bopomofo
- 16-55, the first plane for Chinese characters, arranged according to Pinyin. (3755 characters).
- 56-87, the second plane for Chinese characters, arranged according to radical and strokes. (3008 characters).
- 88-89, further Chinese characters. (103 characters). Defined only for GB/T 12345, not GB 2312.
The rows 10-15 and 90-94 are unassigned.
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