General Punctuation

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See also: Supplemental Punctuation (Unicode block)
Short description: Unicode character block
General Punctuation
RangeU+2000..U+206F
(112 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCommon (109 char.)
Inherited (2 char.)
Symbol setsPunctuation
Spaces
Format controls
Assigned111 code points
Unused1 reserved code points
6 deprecated
Unicode version history
1.0.067 (+67)
1.176 (+9)
3.083 (+7)
3.295 (+12)
4.097 (+2)
4.1106 (+9)
5.1107 (+1)
6.3111 (+4)
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.

Block

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 12em, em, ​13em, ​14em, ​16em, figure and punctuation space, variable thin or 15em and hair space, fixed zero-width space) and U+205F (math medium or 29 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.

Emoji

The General Punctuation block contains two emoji: U+203C and U+2049.[3][4]

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.[5]

Emoji variation sequences
U+ 203C 2049
base code point
base+VS15 (text) ‼︎ ⁉︎
base+VS16 (emoji) ‼️ ⁉️

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the General Punctuation block:

References