Plane (Unicode) - Basic Multilingual Plane

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. A primary objective for the BMP is to support the unification of prior character sets as well as characters for writing. Most of the allocated code points in the BMP are used to encode Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) characters.

The High Surrogates and Low Surrogate codes are reserved for encoding non-BMP characters in UTF-16 by using a pair of 16-bit codes: one High Surrogate and one Low Surrogate. A single surrogate code point will never be assigned a character.


As of Unicode 6.2, the BMP comprises the following blocks:

  • C0 Controls and Basic Latin (Basic Latin) (0000–007F)
  • C1 Controls and 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)
  • N'Ko (07C0–07FF)
  • Samaritan (0800–083F)
  • Mandaic (0840–085F)
  • Arabic Extended-A (08A0–08FF)
  • 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)
  • Myanmar (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)
  • Philippine scripts:
  • Tagalog (1700–171F)
  • Hanunoo (1720–173F)
  • Buhid (1740–175F)
  • Tagbanwa (1760–177F)
  • Khmer (1780–17FF)
  • Mongolian (1800–18AF)
  • Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended (18B0–18FF)
  • Limbu (1900–194F)
  • Tai Le (1950–197F)
  • Tai Lue (1980–19DF)
  • Khmer Symbols (19E0–19FF)
  • Buginese (1A00–1A1F)
  • Tai Tham (1A20–1AAF)
  • Balinese (1B00–1B7F)
  • Sundanese (1B80–1BBF)
  • Batak (1BC0–1BFF)
  • Lepcha (1C00–1C4F)
  • Ol Chiki (1C50–1C7F)
  • Sundanese Supplement (1CC0–1CCF)
  • Vedic Extensions (1CD0–1CFF)
  • 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)
  • Latin Extended-C (2C60–2C7F)
  • Coptic (2C80–2CFF)
  • Georgian Supplement (2D00–2D2F)
  • Tifinagh (2D30–2D7F)
  • Ethiopic Extended (2D80–2DDF)
  • Cyrillic Extended-A (2DE0–2DFF)
  • Supplemental Punctuation (2E00–2E7F)
  • East Asian scripts and symbols:
  • 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)
  • Yi Syllables (A000–A48F)
  • Yi Radicals (A490–A4CF)
  • Lisu (A4D0–A4FF)
  • Vai (A500–A63F)
  • Cyrillic Extended-B (A640–A69F)
  • Bamum (A6A0–A6FF)
  • Modifier Tone Letters (A700–A71F)
  • Latin Extended-D (A720–A7FF)
  • Syloti Nagri (A800–A82F)
  • Common Indic Number Forms (A830–A83F)
  • Phags-pa (A840–A87F)
  • Saurashtra (A880–A8DF)
  • Devanagari Extended (A8E0–A8FF)
  • Kayah Li (A900–A92F)
  • Rejang (A930–A95F)
  • Hangul Jamo Extended-A (A960–A97F)
  • Javanese (A980–A9DF)
  • Cham (AA00–AA5F)
  • Myanmar Extended-A (AA60–AA7F)
  • Tai Viet (AA80–AADF)
  • Meetei Mayek Extensions (AAE0–AAFF)
  • Ethiopic Extended-A (AB00–AB2F)
  • Meetei Mayek (ABC0–ABFF)
  • Hangul Syllables (AC00–D7AF)
  • Hangul Jamo Extended-B (D7B0–D7FF)
  • Surrogates:
  • 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)

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