| General Punctuation | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+2000..U+206F (112 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Common (109 char.) Inherited (2 char.) |
| Symbol sets | Punctuation Spaces Format controls |
| Assigned | 111 code points |
| Unused | 1 reserved code points 6deprecated |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0(1991) | 67 (+67) |
| 1.1(1993) | 76 (+9) |
| 3.0(1999) | 83 (+7) |
| 3.2(2002) | 95 (+12) |
| 4.0(2003) | 97 (+2) |
| 4.1(2005) | 106 (+9) |
| 5.1(2008) | 107 (+1) |
| 6.3(2013) | 111 (+4) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note:[1][2] | |
General Punctuation is aUnicode block containingpunctuation,spacing, and formatting characters for use with all scripts and writing systems. Included are the defined-widthspaces, joining formats, directional formats,smart quotes, archaic and novel punctuation such as theinterrobang, and invisible mathematical operators.
Additional punctuation characters are in theSupplemental Punctuation block and sprinkled in dozens of other Unicode blocks.
| General Punctuation[1][2][3] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+200x | NQ SP | MQ SP | EN SP | EM SP | 3/M SP | 4/M SP | 6/M SP | F SP | P SP | TH SP | H SP | ZW SP | ZW NJ | ZW J | LRM | RLM |
| U+201x | ‐ | NB ‑ | ‒ | – | — | ― | ‖ | ‗ | ‘ | ’ | ‚ | ‛ | “ | ” | „ | ‟ |
| U+202x | † | ‡ | • | ‣ | ․ | ‥ | … | ‧ | L SEP | P SEP | LRE | RLE | LRO | RLO | NNB SP | |
| U+203x | ‰ | ‱ | ′ | ″ | ‴ | ‵ | ‶ | ‷ | ‸ | ‹ | › | ※ | ‼ | ‽ | ‾ | ‿ |
| U+204x | ⁀ | ⁁ | ⁂ | ⁃ | ⁄ | ⁅ | ⁆ | ⁇ | ⁈ | ⁉ | ⁊ | ⁋ | ⁌ | ⁍ | ⁎ | ⁏ |
| U+205x | ⁐ | ⁑ | ⁒ | ⁓ | ⁔ | ⁕ | ⁖ | ⁗ | ⁘ | ⁙ | ⁚ | ⁛ | ⁜ | ⁝ | ⁞ | MM SP |
| U+206x | WJ | ƒ() | × | , | + | LRI | RLI | FSI | PDI | I SS | A SS | I AFS | A AFS | NA DS | NO DS | |
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
Several characters in this block are usually not rendered with a directly visible glyph. Tenwhitespace characters—U+2002 through U+200B (fixeden or1⁄2 em,em,1⁄3 em,1⁄4 em,1⁄6 em,figure andpunctuation space, variablethin or1⁄5 em andhair space, fixedzero-width space)—and U+205F (math medium or2⁄9 em space) differ by horizontal width, while U+2000 and U+2001 (en andem quad) are effectively aliases of U+2002 and U+2003, respectively; another two, U+202F and U+2060 (ill-termedword joiner), are variants of U+2009 or U+2004 and U+200B that prohibit line breaks. Three zero-width characters, U+200B through U+200D (space,non-joiner andjoiner), differ in how they affectligation and shaping of adjacent letters such ascontextual forms in Arabic.Eleven invisible characters—U+200E, U+200F (left-to-right andright-to-left mark), U+202A through U+202E (embeds, pops andoverrides) and U+2066 through U+2069 (isolates)—control the directionality of text unless higher-level markup overrides them. There are explicitline andparagraph separators at U+2028 and U+2029.
This block hasvariation sequences defined for East Asian punctuation positional variants of the curly quotation marks ‘...’ and “...”.U+FE00 VARIATION SELECTOR-1 (VS01) andU+FE01 VARIATION SELECTOR-2 (VS02) are used for East Asian punctuation positional variants.[3]U+FE02 VARIATION SELECTOR-3 (VS03) is used forSibe positional variants.[4]
| U+ | 2018 | 2019 | 201C | 201D | Description |
| base code point | ‘ | ’ | “ | ” | |
| base + VS01 | ‘︀ | ’︀ | “︀ | ”︀ | non-fullwidth form |
| base + VS02 | ‘︁ | ’︁ | “︁ | ”︁ | justified fullwidth form |
| base + VS03 | ‘︂ | ’︂ | “︂ | ”︂ | Sibe form |
The non-fullwidth forms are expected to be separated with a space on one side, the fullwidth forms are not:
In vertical text, the fullwidth forms should display somewhat differently, and even as regularCJK quotation marks 「...」 and 『...』 if the vertical orientation property is set to "Hans":
The General Punctuation block contains twoemoji:U+203C and U+2049.[5][6]
The block has fourstandardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for thetwo emoji, both of which default to a text presentation.[7]
| U+ | 203C | 2049 |
| base code point | ‼ | ⁉ |
| base+VS15 (text) | ‼︎ | ⁉︎ |
| base+VS16 (emoji) | ‼️ | ⁉️ |
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the General Punctuation block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | UTC ID | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | U+2000..202E, 2030..203E, 2040..2044 | 67 | (to be determined) | |||
| L2/11-438[b][c] | N4182 | Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22),Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429) | ||||
| L2/17-086 | Burge, Jeremy; et al. (2017-03-27),Add ZWJ, VS-16, Keycaps & Tags to Emoji_Component | |||||
| L2/17-103 | Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "E.1.7 Add ZWJ, VS-16, Keycaps & Tags to Emoji_Component",UTC #151 Minutes | |||||
| L2/21-009 | Moore, Lisa (2021-01-27), "16 [Affects U+2018-201D]",UTC #166 Minutes | |||||
| L2/23-212R | Lunde, Ken (2023-10-14),Proposal to add standardized variation sequences for four quotation marks [Affects U+2018, 2019, 201C, and 201D] | |||||
| L2/23-238R | Anderson, Deborah; Kučera, Jan; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2023-11-01), "15 Symbols (Punctuation): Quotation Marks [Affects U+2018, 2019, 201C, and 201D]",Recommendations to UTC #177 November 2023 on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/23-231 | Constable, Peter (2023-12-08), "Consensus 177-C36",UTC #177 Minutes,Add ... eight standardized variation sequences, based on L2/23-212R [Affects U+2018, 2019, 201C, and 201D] | |||||
| L2/25-028 | Sim, CheonHyeong (2025-01-08),Proposal to Add VS3 for Sibe Quotation Marks [Affects U+2018, 2019, 201C, and 201D] | |||||
| L2/25-010 | Kučera, Jan; et al. (2025-01-16), "6.7 Sibe Quotation Marks [Affects U+2018, 2019, 201C, and 201D]",Recommendations to UTC #182 (January 2025) on Script Proposals | |||||
| L2/25-003 | Leroy, Robin (2025-01-28), "Consensus: 182-C33 [Affects U+2018, 2019, 201C, and 201D]",UTC #182 Minutes,Accept the proposal to add [...] four standardized variation sequences | |||||
| 1.1 | U+203F, 2045..2046 | 3 | (to be determined) | |||
| U+206A..206F | 6 | (to be determined) | ||||
| UTC/1992-xxx | Freytag, Asmus (1992-05-12), "C. Bidi",Unconfirmed minutes for UTC Meeting #52, May 8, 1992 at Xerox | |||||
| L2/01-275 | Davis, Mark (2001-07-16),New Properties (ReservedForCf, Deprecated, Discouraged) | |||||
| L2/01-301 | Whistler, Ken (2001-08-01), "Alternate format controls inherited from 10646",Analysis of Character Deprecation in the Unicode Standard | |||||
| L2/01-326 | Davis, Mark (2001-08-15),New Properties: Reserved_Cf_Code_Point & Deprecated | |||||
| L2/01-295R | Moore, Lisa (2001-11-06), "Motion 88-M13",Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting #88 | |||||
| 3.0 | U+202F, 2048..2049 | 3 | L2/97-288 | N1603 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "8.18",Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997 | |
| L2/98-088 | N1711 | The Working Meeting on Mongolian Encoding Attended by Representatives of China and Mongolia, 1998-02-15 | ||||
| L2/98-104 | N1734 | Whistler, Ken (1998-03-20),Comments on the Mongolian Encoding Proposal, WG2 N1711 | ||||
| L2/98-252 (pdf,txt) | N1833RM (pdf,doc) | Moore, Richard (1998-05-04),Feedback on Ken Whistler's Comments on Mongolian Encoding: N 1734 | ||||
| L2/98-251 (pdf,html,txt) | N1808 (pdf,doc) | Reply to "Proposal WG2 N1734" Raised at the Seattle Meeting Regarding "Proposal WG 2 N1711", 1998-07-09 | ||||
| L2/98-281R (pdf,html) | Aliprand, Joan (1998-07-31), "Mongolian (IV.A)",Unconfirmed Minutes – UTC #77 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 174 JOINT MEETING, Redmond, WA -- July 29-31, 1998 | |||||
| N1862 | Revision of N1711 - Mongolian, 1998-09-17 | |||||
| N1865 | US Position - Mongolian (N1711, N1734 and N1808), 1998-09-18 | |||||
| N1918 | Paterson, Bruce (1998-10-28),Text for Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot - SC2 N 3208 | |||||
| L2/99-010 | N1903 (pdf,html,doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "8.1.3",Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25 | ||||
| L2/99-075.1 | N1973 | Irish Comments on SC 2 N 3208, 1999-01-19 | ||||
| L2/99-075 | N1972 (pdf,html,doc) | Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3208, PDAM ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 29: Mongolian, 1999-02-12 | ||||
| N2020 | Paterson, Bruce (1999-04-05),FPDAM 29 Text - Mongolian | |||||
| L2/99-113 | Text for FPDAM ballot of ISO/IEC 10646, Amd. 29 - Mongolian, 1999-04-06 | |||||
| L2/99-232 | N2003 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), "6.1.3 PDAM29 – Mongolian script",Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15 | ||||
| L2/99-304 | N2126 | Paterson, Bruce (1999-10-01),Revised Text for FDAM ballot of ISO/IEC 10646-1/FDAM 29, AMENDMENT 29: Mongolian | ||||
| L2/99-381 | Final text for ISO/IEC 10646-1, FDAM 29 -- Mongolian, 1999-12-07 | |||||
| L2/00-010 | N2103 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), "6.4.4",Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13—16 | ||||
| L2/07-209 | Whistler, Ken (2007-07-05),UTR 14 and U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE | |||||
| L2/11-438[b][c] | N4182 | Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22),Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429) | ||||
| L2/15-187 | Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "B.14.5",UTC #144 Minutes | |||||
| L2/16-258 | N4752R2 | Eck, Greg (2016-09-19),Mongolian Base Forms, Positional Forms, & Variant Forms | ||||
| L2/16-259 | N4753 | Eck, Greg; Rileke, Orlog Ou (2016-09-20),WG2 #65 Mongolian Discussion Points | ||||
| L2/16-266 | N4763 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016-09-26), "1. Mongolian",Comments on Mongolian, Small Khitan, and other WG2 #65 documents | ||||
| L2/16-297 | N4769 | Anderson, Deborah (2016-10-27),Mongolian ad hoc report | ||||
| U+204A | 1 | L2/98-214 | N1747 | Everson, Michael (1998-05-25),Contraction characters for the UCS | ||
| L2/98-281R (pdf,html) | Aliprand, Joan (1998-07-31), "Characters from ISO 5426-2 (IV.C.5-6)",Unconfirmed Minutes – UTC #77 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 174 JOINT MEETING, Redmond, WA -- July 29-31, 1998 | |||||
| L2/98-292R (pdf,html,Figure 1) | "2.6",Comments on proposals to add characters from ISO standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 4, 1998-08-19 | |||||
| L2/98-292 | N1840 | "2.6",Comments on proposals to add characters from ISO standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 4, 1998-08-25 | ||||
| L2/98-301 | N1847 | Everson, Michael (1998-09-12),Responses to NCITS/L2 and Unicode Consortium comments on numerous proposals | ||||
| L2/98-372 | N1884R2 (pdf,doc) | Whistler, Ken; et al. (1998-09-22),Additional Characters for the UCS | ||||
| L2/98-329 | N1920 | Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 30, AMENDMENT 30: Additional Latin and other characters, 1998-10-28 | ||||
| L2/99-010 | N1903 (pdf,html,doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "8.1.5.1",Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25 | ||||
| U+204B..204D | 3 | L2/98-215 | N1748 | Everson, Michael (1998-05-25),Additional signature mark characters for the UCS | ||
| L2/98-281R (pdf,html) | Aliprand, Joan (1998-07-31), "Signature Marks (IV.C.7)",Unconfirmed Minutes – UTC #77 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 174 JOINT MEETING, Redmond, WA -- July 29-31, 1998 | |||||
| L2/98-292R (pdf,html,Figure 1) | "2.7",Comments on proposals to add characters from ISO standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 4, 1998-08-19 | |||||
| L2/98-292 | N1840 | "2.7",Comments on proposals to add characters from ISO standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 4, 1998-08-25 | ||||
| L2/98-301 | N1847 | Everson, Michael (1998-09-12),Responses to NCITS/L2 and Unicode Consortium comments on numerous proposals | ||||
| L2/98-372 | N1884R2 (pdf,doc) | Whistler, Ken; et al. (1998-09-22),Additional Characters for the UCS | ||||
| L2/98-329 | N1920 | Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 30, AMENDMENT 30: Additional Latin and other characters, 1998-10-28 | ||||
| L2/99-010 | N1903 (pdf,html,doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "8.1.5.1",Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25 | ||||
| 3.2 | U+2047, 2051 | 2 | L2/99-238 | Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 1999-07-15 | ||
| N2092 | Addition of forty eight characters, 1999-09-13 | |||||
| L2/99-365 | Moore, Lisa (1999-11-23),Comments on JCS Proposals | |||||
| L2/00-024 | Shibano, Kohji (2000-01-31),JCS proposal revised | |||||
| L2/99-260R | Moore, Lisa (2000-02-07), "JCS Proposals",Minutes of the UTC/L2 meeting in Mission Viejo, October 26-28, 1999 | |||||
| L2/00-098,L2/00-098-page5 | N2195 | Rationale for non-Kanji characters proposed by JCS committee, 2000-03-15 | ||||
| L2/00-119[d] | N2191R | Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-04-19),Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode | ||||
| L2/00-234 | N2203 (rtf,txt) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.18, 8.20",Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24 | ||||
| L2/00-115R2 | Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), "Motion 83-M11",Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83 | |||||
| L2/00-297 | N2257 | Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04),JIS X 0213 symbols part-1 | ||||
| L2/00-342 | N2278 | Sato, T. K.; Everson, Michael; Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-09-20),Ad hoc Report on Japan feedback N2257 and N2258 | ||||
| L2/01-050 | N2253 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.16 JIS X0213 Symbols",Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000 | ||||
| U+204E..2050, 2057, 205F, 2061..2062 | 7 | L2/00-005R2 | Moore, Lisa (2000-02-14), "Motion 82-M11",Minutes of UTC #82 in San Jose | |||
| L2/00-119[d] | N2191R | Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-04-19),Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode | ||||
| L2/00-234 | N2203 (rtf,txt) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.18",Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24 | ||||
| L2/00-115R2 | Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), "Motion 83-M11",Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83 | |||||
| U+2052, 2063 | 2 | L2/01-142[d] | N2336 | Beeton, Barbara; Freytag, Asmus;Ion, Patrick (2001-04-02),Additional Mathematical Symbols | ||
| L2/01-156 | N2356 | Freytag, Asmus (2001-04-03),Additional Mathematical Characters (Draft 10) | ||||
| L2/01-344 | N2353 (pdf,doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), "7.7 Mathematical Symbols",Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001 | ||||
| U+2060 | 1 | L2/99-260R | Moore, Lisa (2000-02-07), "Unicode in Markup Languages",Minutes of the UTC/L2 meeting in Mission Viejo, October 26-28, 1999 | |||
| L2/00-005R2 | Moore, Lisa (2000-02-14), "Zero Width Grapheme Break/Join",Minutes of UTC #82 in San Jose,Action Item for Arnold Winkler: As the zero width grapheme break/join proposal was withdrawn, re-open Action Item 81-12 (for Mark Davis to prepare a proposal for WG2 for the Zero Width Word Joiner.) | |||||
| L2/00-258 | N2235 | Davis, Mark (2000-08-09),Proposal for addition of ZERO WIDTH WORD JOINER | ||||
| L2/00-369 | Whistler, Ken (2000-10-06), "e. (ZERO WIDTH) WORD JOINER",WG2 in Vouliagmeni (Athens) | |||||
| L2/01-050 | N2253 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.7 Proposal for addition of ZERO WIDTH WORDJOINER",Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000 | ||||
| 4.0 | U+2053..2054 | 2 | L2/02-141 | N2419 | Everson, Michael; et al. (2002-03-20),Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS | |
| L2/02-192 | Everson, Michael (2002-05-02),Everson's Reply on UPA | |||||
| N2442 | Everson, Michael; Kolehmainen, Erkki I.; Ruppel, Klaas; Trosterud, Trond (2002-05-21),Justification for placing the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet in the BMP | |||||
| L2/02-291 | Whistler, Ken (2002-05-31),WG2 report from Dublin | |||||
| L2/02-292 | Whistler, Ken (2002-06-03),Early look at WG2 consent docket | |||||
| L2/02-166R2 | Moore, Lisa (2002-08-09), "Scripts and New Characters - UPA",UTC #91 Minutes | |||||
| L2/02-253 | Moore, Lisa (2002-10-21), "Consensus 92-C2",UTC #92 Minutes | |||||
| 4.1 | U+2055 | 1 | L2/03-151R | Constable, Peter; Lloyd-Williams, James; Lloyd-Williams, Sue; Chowdhury, Shamsul Islam;Ali, Asaddar; Sadique, Mohammed; Chowdhury, Matiar Rahman (2003-05-10),Revised Proposal for Encoding Syloti Nagri Script in the BMP | ||
| L2/03-136 | Moore, Lisa (2003-08-18), "Scripts and New Characters - Syloti Nagri Script",UTC #95 Minutes | |||||
| U+2056, 2058..2059 | 3 | L2/03-282R | N2610R | Everson, Michael; Cleminson, Ralph (2003-09-04),Final proposal for encoding the Glagolitic script in the UCS | ||
| L2/03-324 | N2642 | Pantelia, Maria (2003-10-06),Proposal to encode additional Greek editorial and punctuation characters in the UCS | ||||
| U+205A..205C | 3 | L2/03-157 | Pantelia, Maria (2003-05-19),Additional Beta Code Characters not in Unicode (WIP) | |||
| L2/03-193R | N2612-7 | Pantelia, Maria (2003-06-11),Proposal to encode additional Punctuation Characters in the UCS | ||||
| U+205D | 1 | L2/02-312R | Pantelia, Maria (2002-11-07),Proposal to encode additional Greek editorial and punctuation characters in the UCS | |||
| L2/03-324 | N2642 | Pantelia, Maria (2003-10-06),Proposal to encode additional Greek editorial and punctuation characters in the UCS | ||||
| U+205E | 1 | L2/03-354 | N2655 | Freytag, Asmus (2003-10-10),Proposal -- Symbols used in Dictionaries | ||
| L2/03-356R2 | Moore, Lisa (2003-10-22), "Consensus 97-C15",UTC #97 Minutes | |||||
| 5.1 | U+2064 | 1 | L2/07-011R | N3198R | Freytag, Asmus; Beeton, Barbara; Ion, Patrick; Sargent, Murray; Carlisle, David; Pournader, Roozbeh (2007-01-15),29 Additional Mathematical and Symbol Characters | |
| L2/07-015 | Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), "Mathematical Characters and Symbols (C.4)",UTC #110 Minutes | |||||
| L2/07-268 | N3253 (pdf,doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.16",Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27 | ||||
| 6.3 | U+2066..2069 | 4 | L2/12-186R | Lanin, Aharon; Davis, Mark; Pournader, Roozbeh (2012-07-24),A Proposal for Bidi Isolates in Unicode | ||
| L2/12-290 | N4310 | Lanin, Aharon; Davis, Mark; Pournader, Roozbeh (2012-07-31),Proposal for Four Characters for Bidi | ||||
| L2/12-239 | Moore, Lisa (2012-08-14), "Consensus 132-C12",UTC #132 Minutes | |||||
| L2/13-040 | Pournader, Roozbeh; Lanin, Aharon (2013-01-29),Fasttracking Arabic Letter Mark (ALM) | |||||
| L2/13-125 | N4447 | Constable, Peter (2013-06-10),Unicode Liaison Report to WG2 | ||||
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