General Punctuation

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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 6 deprecated
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 a Unicode block containing punctuation, spacing, and formatting characters for use with all scripts and writing systems. Included are the defined-width spaces, joining formats, directional formats, smart quotes, archaic and novel punctuation such as the interrobang, and invisible mathematical operators.

Additional punctuation characters are in the Supplemental Punctuation block and sprinkled in dozens of other Unicode blocks.

Several characters in this block are usually not rendered with a directly visible glyph. Ten whitespace characters U+2002 through U+200B (fixed en or 1⁄2 em, em, 1⁄3 em, 1⁄4 em, 1⁄6 em, figure and punctuation space, variable thin or 1⁄5 em and hair space, fixed zero-width space) and U+205F (math medium or 2⁄9 em space) differ by horizontal width, while U+2000 and U+2001 (en and em quad) are effectively aliases of U+2002 and U+2003, respectively; another two, U+202F and U+2060 (ill-termed word 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 and joiner) differ in how they affect ligation and shaping of adjacent letters such as contextual forms in Arabic. Eleven invisible characters U+200E, U+200F (left-to-right and right-to-left mark), U+202A through U+202E (embeds, pops and overrides) and U+2066 through U+2069 (isolates) control the directionality of text unless higher-level markup overrides them. There are explicit line and paragraph separators at U+2028 and U+2029.

Starting with Unicode 16 (2024), the block has variation sequences defined for East Asian punctuation positional variants of the curly quotation marks ‘...’ and "...". They use U+FE00 VARIATION SELECTOR-1 (VS01) and U+FE01 VARIATION SELECTOR-2 (VS02):^[3]

Variation sequences for fullwidth quotation marks

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 regular CJK quotation marks 「...」 and 『...』 if the vertical orientation property is set to "Hans":

The General Punctuation block contains two emoji: U+203C and U+2049.^{[4] [5]}

The block has four standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the two emoji, both of which default to a text presentation.^[6]

Emoji variation sequences

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年12月22日), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
			L2/17-086	Burge, Jeremy; et al. (2017年03月27日), Add ZWJ, VS-16, Keycaps & Tags to Emoji_Component
			L2/17-103	Moore, Lisa (2017年05月18日), "E.1.7 Add ZWJ, VS-16, Keycaps & Tags to Emoji_Component", UTC #151 Minutes
			L2/23-212R	Lunde, Ken (2023年10月14日), 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年11月01日), "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年12月08日), "Consensus 177-C36", UTC #177 Minutes, Add ... eight standardized variation sequences, based on L2/23-212R [Affects U+2018, 2019, 201C, and 201D]
1.1	U+203F, 2045..2046	3	(to be determined)
	U+206A..206F	6	(to be determined)
			UTC/1992-xxx	Freytag, Asmus (1992年05月12日), "C. Bidi", Unconfirmed minutes for UTC Meeting #52, May 8, 1992 at Xerox
			L2/01-275	Davis, Mark (2001年07月16日), New Properties (ReservedForCf, Deprecated, Discouraged)
			L2/01-301	Whistler, Ken (2001年08月01日), "Alternate format controls inherited from 10646", Analysis of Character Deprecation in the Unicode Standard
			L2/01-326	Davis, Mark (2001年08月15日), New Properties: Reserved_Cf_Code_Point & Deprecated
			L2/01-295R	Moore, Lisa (2001年11月06日), "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年10月24日), "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年02月15日
			L2/98-104	N1734	Whistler, Ken (1998年03月20日), Comments on the Mongolian Encoding Proposal, WG2 N1711
			L2/98-252 (pdf, txt)	N1833RM (pdf, doc)	Moore, Richard (1998年05月04日), 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年07月09日
			L2/98-281R (pdf, html)	Aliprand, Joan (1998年07月31日), "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年09月17日
			N1865	US Position - Mongolian (N1711, N1734 and N1808), 1998年09月18日
			N1918	Paterson, Bruce (1998年10月28日), Text for Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot - SC2 N 3208
			L2/99-010	N1903 (pdf, html, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998年12月30日), "8.1.3", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998年09月21日--25
			L2/99-075.1	N1973	Irish Comments on SC 2 N 3208, 1999年01月19日
			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年02月12日
			N2020	Paterson, Bruce (1999年04月05日), FPDAM 29 Text - Mongolian
			L2/99-113	Text for FPDAM ballot of ISO/IEC 10646, Amd. 29 - Mongolian, 1999年04月06日
			L2/99-232	N2003	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999年08月03日), "6.1.3 PDAM29 – Mongolian script", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999年03月09日--15
			L2/99-304	N2126	Paterson, Bruce (1999年10月01日), 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年12月07日
			L2/00-010	N2103	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000年01月05日), "6.4.4", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999年09月13日—16
			L2/07-209	Whistler, Ken (2007年07月05日), UTR 14 and U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
			L2/11-438 [b] [c]	N4182	Edberg, Peter (2011年12月22日), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
			L2/15-187	Moore, Lisa (2015年08月11日), "B.14.5", UTC #144 Minutes
			L2/16-258	N4752R2	Eck, Greg (2016年09月19日), Mongolian Base Forms, Positional Forms, & Variant Forms
			L2/16-259	N4753	Eck, Greg; Rileke, Orlog Ou (2016年09月20日), WG2 #65 Mongolian Discussion Points
			L2/16-266	N4763	Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016年09月26日), "1. Mongolian", Comments on Mongolian, Small Khitan, and other WG2 #65 documents
			L2/16-297	N4769	Anderson, Deborah (2016年10月27日), Mongolian ad hoc report
	U+204A	1	L2/98-214	N1747	Everson, Michael (1998年05月25日), Contraction characters for the UCS
			L2/98-281R (pdf, html)	Aliprand, Joan (1998年07月31日), "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年08月19日
			L2/98-292	N1840	"2.6", Comments on proposals to add characters from ISO standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 4, 1998年08月25日
			L2/98-301	N1847	Everson, Michael (1998年09月12日), Responses to NCITS/L2 and Unicode Consortium comments on numerous proposals
			L2/98-372	N1884R2 (pdf, doc)	Whistler, Ken; et al. (1998年09月22日), 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年10月28日
			L2/99-010	N1903 (pdf, html, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998年12月30日), "8.1.5.1", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998年09月21日--25
	U+204B..204D	3	L2/98-215	N1748	Everson, Michael (1998年05月25日), Additional signature mark characters for the UCS
			L2/98-281R (pdf, html)	Aliprand, Joan (1998年07月31日), "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年08月19日
			L2/98-292	N1840	"2.7", Comments on proposals to add characters from ISO standards developed by ISO/TC 46/SC 4, 1998年08月25日
			L2/98-301	N1847	Everson, Michael (1998年09月12日), Responses to NCITS/L2 and Unicode Consortium comments on numerous proposals
			L2/98-372	N1884R2 (pdf, doc)	Whistler, Ken; et al. (1998年09月22日), 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年10月28日
			L2/99-010	N1903 (pdf, html, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998年12月30日), "8.1.5.1", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998年09月21日--25
3.2	U+2047, 2051	2	L2/99-238	Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 1999年07月15日
			N2092	Addition of forty eight characters, 1999年09月13日
			L2/99-365	Moore, Lisa (1999年11月23日), Comments on JCS Proposals
			L2/00-024	Shibano, Kohji (2000年01月31日), JCS proposal revised
			L2/99-260R	Moore, Lisa (2000年02月07日), "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年03月15日
			L2/00-119 [d]	N2191R	Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000年04月19日), Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode
			L2/00-234	N2203 (rtf, txt)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000年07月21日), "8.18, 8.20", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000年03月21日 -- 24
			L2/00-115R2	Moore, Lisa (2000年08月08日), "Motion 83-M11", Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83
			L2/00-297	N2257	Sato, T. K. (2000年09月04日), JIS X 0213 symbols part-1
			L2/00-342	N2278	Sato, T. K.; Everson, Michael; Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000年09月20日), Ad hoc Report on Japan feedback N2257 and N2258
			L2/01-050	N2253	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001年01月21日), "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年02月14日), "Motion 82-M11", Minutes of UTC #82 in San Jose
			L2/00-119 [d]	N2191R	Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000年04月19日), Encoding Additional Mathematical Symbols in Unicode
			L2/00-234	N2203 (rtf, txt)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000年07月21日), "8.18", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000年03月21日 -- 24
			L2/00-115R2	Moore, Lisa (2000年08月08日), "Motion 83-M11", Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83
	U+2052, 2063	2	L2/01-142 [d]	N2336	Beeton, Barbara; Freytag, Asmus; Ion, Patrick (2001年04月02日), Additional Mathematical Symbols
			L2/01-156	N2356	Freytag, Asmus (2001年04月03日), Additional Mathematical Characters (Draft 10)
			L2/01-344	N2353 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001年09月09日), "7.7 Mathematical Symbols", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001
	U+2060	1	L2/99-260R	Moore, Lisa (2000年02月07日), "Unicode in Markup Languages", Minutes of the UTC/L2 meeting in Mission Viejo, October 26-28, 1999
			L2/00-005R2	Moore, Lisa (2000年02月14日), "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年08月09日), Proposal for addition of ZERO WIDTH WORD JOINER
			L2/00-369	Whistler, Ken (2000年10月06日), "e. (ZERO WIDTH) WORD JOINER", WG2 in Vouliagmeni (Athens)
			L2/01-050	N2253	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001年01月21日), "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年03月20日), Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS
			L2/02-192	Everson, Michael (2002年05月02日), Everson's Reply on UPA
			N2442	Everson, Michael; Kolehmainen, Erkki I.; Ruppel, Klaas; Trosterud, Trond (2002年05月21日), Justification for placing the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet in the BMP
			L2/02-291	Whistler, Ken (2002年05月31日), WG2 report from Dublin
			L2/02-292	Whistler, Ken (2002年06月03日), Early look at WG2 consent docket
			L2/02-166R2	Moore, Lisa (2002年08月09日), "Scripts and New Characters - UPA", UTC #91 Minutes
			L2/02-253	Moore, Lisa (2002年10月21日), "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年05月10日), Revised Proposal for Encoding Syloti Nagri Script in the BMP
			L2/03-136	Moore, Lisa (2003年08月18日), "Scripts and New Characters - Syloti Nagri Script", UTC #95 Minutes
	U+2056, 2058..2059	3	L2/03-282R	N2610R	Everson, Michael; Cleminson, Ralph (2003年09月04日), Final proposal for encoding the Glagolitic script in the UCS
			L2/03-324	N2642	Pantelia, Maria (2003年10月06日), Proposal to encode additional Greek editorial and punctuation characters in the UCS
	U+205A..205C	3	L2/03-157	Pantelia, Maria (2003年05月19日), Additional Beta Code Characters not in Unicode (WIP)
			L2/03-193R	N2612-7	Pantelia, Maria (2003年06月11日), Proposal to encode additional Punctuation Characters in the UCS
	U+205D	1	L2/02-312R	Pantelia, Maria (2002年11月07日), Proposal to encode additional Greek editorial and punctuation characters in the UCS
			L2/03-324	N2642	Pantelia, Maria (2003年10月06日), Proposal to encode additional Greek editorial and punctuation characters in the UCS
	U+205E	1	L2/03-354	N2655	Freytag, Asmus (2003年10月10日), Proposal -- Symbols used in Dictionaries
			L2/03-356R2	Moore, Lisa (2003年10月22日), "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年01月15日), 29 Additional Mathematical and Symbol Characters
			L2/07-015	Moore, Lisa (2007年02月08日), "Mathematical Characters and Symbols (C.4)", UTC #110 Minutes
			L2/07-268	N3253 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007年07月26日), "M50.16", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007年04月24日/27
6.3	U+2066..2069	4	L2/12-186R	Lanin, Aharon; Davis, Mark; Pournader, Roozbeh (2012年07月24日), A Proposal for Bidi Isolates in Unicode
			L2/12-290	N4310	Lanin, Aharon; Davis, Mark; Pournader, Roozbeh (2012年07月31日), Proposal for Four Characters for Bidi
			L2/12-239	Moore, Lisa (2012年08月14日), "Consensus 132-C12", UTC #132 Minutes
			L2/13-040	Pournader, Roozbeh; Lanin, Aharon (2013年01月29日), Fasttracking Arabic Letter Mark (ALM)
			L2/13-125	N4447	Constable, Peter (2013年06月10日), Unicode Liaison Report to WG2
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ^ a b See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429 ^ a b Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents ^ a b c Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B block for additional math-related documents

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