CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B

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CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B is a large Unicode block that encodes an extensive set of rare and historical Chinese characters used across East Asian languages, including those found in systems like Chữ Nôm.

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CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Unicode block
belongsTo CJK Unified Ideographs repertoire
blockName CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B
characterType logographic
codePointRangeEnd U+2A6DF
codePointRangeStart U+20000
contains CJK ideographs
historic Chinese characters
rare Chinese characters
coverage rare and historic Han characters
encodingStandard ISO/IEC 10646 NERFINISHED
Unicode NERFINISHED
hasProperty supplementary block
unified ideographs
introducedInVersion Unicode 3.1 NERFINISHED
plane Supplementary Ideographic Plane NERFINISHED
planeNumber Plane 2
relatedBlock CJK Unified Ideographs
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A NERFINISHED
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C NERFINISHED
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D NERFINISHED
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E NERFINISHED
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F NERFINISHED
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G NERFINISHED
script Han
scriptDirection left-to-right
top-to-bottom
standardizedBy Unicode Consortium NERFINISHED
usageRegion China NERFINISHED
Japan NERFINISHED
Korea NERFINISHED
Vietnam NERFINISHED
usedFor historical documents
philological research
rare personal names
usedInLanguageFamily Austroasiatic languages NERFINISHED
Japonic languages
Koreanic languages
Sino-Tibetan languages NERFINISHED
usesInSystem Chữ Nôm NERFINISHED
writingSystem Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Vietnamese NERFINISHED
yearIntroduced 2001

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Chữ Nôm UnicodeBlock CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B
CJK Unified Ideographs hasUnicodeBlock CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B