Bopomofo (Unicode block)
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Bopomofo | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+3100..U+312F (48 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Bopomofo |
| Major alphabets | Phonetic Chinese |
| Assigned | 43 code points |
| Unused | 5 reserved code points |
| Source standards | GB 2312 |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 | 40 (+40) |
| 5.1 | 41 (+1) |
| 10.0 | 42 (+1) |
| 11.0 | 43 (+1) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Bopomofo is a Unicode block containing phonetic characters for Chinese. The original set of 40 Bopomofo characters is based on the Chinese standard GB 2312. Additional Bopomofo characters can be found in the Bopomofo Extended block.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bopomofo block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | U+3105..312C | 40 | (to be determined) | ||
| N4609 | Reply to your company's inquiry to usage of Bopomofo Letter I, 2014-08-20 | ||||
| L2/14-177 | Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), UTC #140 Minutes | ||||
| L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63, "Rotate the glyph for 3127 BOPOMOFO LETTER I by 90 degrees, with an appropriate change in the annotation, per request in document N4609" | |||
| L2/06-324R2 | Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), UTC #109 Minutes | ||||
| L2/07-215 | N3246 | Proposal to encode two Bopomofo characters in UCS, 2007-04-20 | |||
| L2/07-268 | N3253 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27 | |||
| 10.0 | U+312E | 1 | L2/15-284 | N4695 | West, Andrew; Liang, Hai (2015-10-22), Discussion of 2CEF1 |
| L2/15-254 | Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), UTC #145 Minutes, "Approve U+312E BOPOMOFO LETTER O WITH DOT ABOVE for encoding in a future version of the standard. See document L2/15-270." | ||||
| N4739 | Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31 | ||||
| 11.0 | U+312F | 1 | L2/16-106 | N4717 | West, Andrew (2016-04-21), Proposal to encode one Bopomofo letter |
| L2/16-121 | Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), UTC #147 Minutes | ||||
| N4756 | TCA Feedback on JTC1/SC2/WG2 N4717, 2016-09-22 | ||||
| N4873R (pdf, doc) | Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16 | ||||
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See also
- Spacing Modifier Letters (Unicode block) has two Bopomofo characters: U+02EA–U+02EB
References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
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