GB 2312 - Characters

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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