Kanbun is a Unicode block containing annotation characters used in Japanese copies (kanbun) of Classical Chinese texts, to indicate reading order.
| Kanbun | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+3190..U+319F (16 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Major alphabets | Chinese characters |
| Assigned | 16 code points |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 (1991) | 16 (+16) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was CJK Miscellaneous, and its code point range was defined differently, including the then-unallocated space now occupied by Bopomofo Extended, CJK Strokes and Katakana Phonetic Extensions.[3]
| Kanbun[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+319x | ㆐ | ㆑ | ㆒ | ㆓ | ㆔ | ㆕ | ㆖ | ㆗ | ㆘ | ㆙ | ㆚ | ㆛ | ㆜ | ㆝ | ㆞ | ㆟ |
Notes
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History edit
The following Unicode-related document records the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Kanbun block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | UTC ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | U+3190..319F | 16 | UTC/1991-048B | Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "Kaeriten from U+3190 to U+319f", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple |
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References edit
- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "3.8: Block-by-Block Charts" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. version 1.0. Unicode Consortium.