Enclosed Ideographic Supplement Explained

Rangestart:1F200
Rangeend:1F2FF
5 2:44
6 0:13
9 0:1
10 0:6
Sources:ARIB STD-B24
Note:[1] [2]

Enclosed Ideographic Supplement is a Unicode block containing forms of characters and words from Chinese, Japanese and Korean enclosed within or stylised as squares, brackets, or circles. It contains three such characters containing one or more kana, and many containing CJK ideographs. Many of its characters were added for compatibility with the Japanese ARIB STD-B24 standard. Six symbols from Chinese folk religion were added in Unicode version 10.

Block

Emoji

The Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block contains fifteen emoji:U+1F201–U+1F202, U+1F21A, U+1F22F, U+1F232–U+1F23A and U+1F250–U+1F251.[3] [4]

The block has eight standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for thefollowing four base characters: U+1F202, U+1F21A, U+1F22F and U+1F237.[5]

Emoji variation sequences
U+ 1F202 1F21A 1F22F 1F237
default presentation text emoji emoji text
base code point
base+VS15 (text)
base+VS16 (emoji)

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block:

Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
5.2 U+1F200, 1F210..1F231, 1F240..1F248 44 doc)
N3341
N3397
N3468
N3469
doc)
doc)
N4182
6.0 U+1F201..1F202, 1F232..1F23A, 1F250..1F251 13
N3583
N3681
9.0 U+1F23B 1 N4671
N4739
10.0 U+1F260..1F265 6

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Unicode character database. The Unicode Standard. 2023-07-26.
  2. Web site: Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard. The Unicode Standard. 2023-07-26.
  3. Web site: UTR #51: Unicode Emoji. Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05.
  4. Web site: UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51. Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
  5. Web site: UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences . The Unicode Consortium.