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Unicode Blocks & Script Families Directory

Explore all 300+ named Unicode blocks across 17 architectural planes. Search by block name, hex range (U+0600..), or script family to discover and inspect glyphs.

123Matching Unicode Blocks

238,320Total Codepoint Capacity

17 PlanesTotal Architecture Planes

Unicode 16.0Standard Version

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The Architecture of the 17 Unicode Planes & 300+ Script Blocks

When the Unicode Consortium was formed in 1991, the original standard was designed as a 16-bit encoding space (supporting 65,536 characters). As the need arose to support historical scripts, specialized mathematical alphabets, and over 3,600 emojis, the architecture was expanded into 17 distinct 16-bit planes (Planes 0 to 16), providing an astronomical total address space of 1,114,112 codepoints:

1. Plane 0 (Basic Multilingual Plane – BMP):Contains ranges U+0000..U+FFFF. Houses over 95% of all daily written human communication (Latin, Arabic, Urdu, Devanagari, Hebrew, CJK).

2. Plane 1 (Supplementary Multilingual Plane – SMP):Contains ranges U+10000..U+1FFFF. Dedicated to emojis, ancient hieroglyphics, cuneiform, and mathematical alphanumeric alphabets.

How Unicode Blocks Organize Modern Computing Standards

•Script Allocation: Related consonants, vowels, and matras are strictly clustered together to optimize font shaping.
•Regex Property Matching: Developers can target entire blocks in regular expressions via \p{sc=Arabic} or \p{InDevanagari}.
•Font Subsetting: Web font optimizers (like Google Fonts) slice large typography files by Unicode block boundaries to reduce download payload.
•Continuous Evolution: Unicode 16.0 adds brand new blocks for modern symbology and endangered indigenous scripts.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

How many total Unicode Blocks exist in Unicode 16.0?+

Unicode 16.0 contains 338 named blocks spanning all 17 planes, covering over 154,998 defined characters.

Why are some Unicode codepoints listed as unassigned or reserved?+

To accommodate future scripts and symbols, the Unicode Consortium reserves unassigned gaps between blocks so related characters can be added in future standard revisions without renumbering existing codepoints.

Can I view and copy all characters belonging to a specific block?+

Yes! Click any block card in our directory to open the full interactive character explorer filtered directly to that block range.

Unicode Blocks & Script Families Directory

Basic Latin

Latin-1 Supplement

Latin Extended-A

Latin Extended-B

IPA Extensions

Spacing Modifier Letters

Combining Diacritical Marks

Greek and Coptic

Cyrillic

Cyrillic Supplement

Armenian

Hebrew

Arabic

Syriac

Arabic Supplement

Thaana

NKo

Arabic Extended-A

Devanagari

Bengali

Gurmukhi

Gujarati

Oriya

Tamil

Telugu

Kannada

Malayalam

Sinhala

Thai

Lao

Tibetan

Myanmar

Georgian

Hangul Jamo

Ethiopic

Cherokee

Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics

Ogham

Runic

Tagalog

Khmer

Mongolian

Latin Extended Additional

Greek Extended

General Punctuation

Superscripts and Subscripts

Currency Symbols

Letterlike Symbols

Number Forms

Arrows

Mathematical Operators

Miscellaneous Technical

Control Pictures

Enclosed Alphanumerics

Box Drawing

Block Elements

Geometric Shapes

Miscellaneous Symbols

Dingbats

Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A

Braille Patterns

Supplemental Arrows-B

Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B

Supplemental Mathematical Operators

CJK Symbols and Punctuation

Hiragana

Katakana

Bopomofo

Hangul Compatibility Jamo

Kanbun

Bopomofo Extended

CJK Strokes

Katakana Phonetic Extensions

Enclosed CJK Letters and Months

CJK Compatibility

CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A

Yijing Hexagram Symbols

CJK Unified Ideographs

Hangul Syllables