Graphical representation of the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement Unicode block

Enclosed Ideographic Supplement is a Unicode block containing forms of characters and words from Chinese, Japanese and Korean enclosed within or stylised as squares, brackets, or circles. It contains three such characters containing one or more kana, and many containing CJK ideographs. Many of its characters were added for compatibility with the Japanese ARIB STD-B24 standard. Six symbols from Chinese folk religion were added in Unicode version 10.

Block

Enclosed Ideographic Supplement[1][2] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+1F20x🈀🈁🈂
U+1F21x🈐🈑🈒🈓🈔🈕🈖🈗🈘🈙🈚🈛🈜🈝🈞🈟
U+1F22x🈠🈡🈢🈣🈤🈥🈦🈧🈨🈩🈪🈫🈬🈭🈮🈯
U+1F23x🈰🈱🈲🈳🈴🈵🈶🈷🈸🈹🈺🈻
U+1F24x🉀🉁🉂🉃🉄🉅🉆🉇🉈
U+1F25x🉐🉑
U+1F26x🉠🉡🉢🉣🉤🉥
U+1F27x
U+1F28x
U+1F29x
U+1F2Ax
U+1F2Bx
U+1F2Cx
U+1F2Dx
U+1F2Ex
U+1F2Fx
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Emoji

The Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block contains fifteen emoji: U+1F201–U+1F202, U+1F21A, U+1F22F, U+1F232–U+1F23A and U+1F250–U+1F251.

The block has eight standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following four base characters: U+1F202, U+1F21A, U+1F22F and U+1F237.

Emoji variation sequences
U+1F2021F21A1F22F1F237
default presentationtextemojiemojitext
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 Enclosed Ideographic Supplement block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
5.2U+1F200, 1F210..1F231, 1F240..1F24844, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.32", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
Suignard, Michel (2007-08-02), Japanese TV Symbols
Suignard, Michel (2007-09-18), Japanese TV Symbols
Suignard, Michel (2008-03-11), Japanese TV symbols
Iancu, Laurențiu (2008-03-22), Names and allocation of some Japanese TV symbols from N3397
Pentzlin, Karl (2008-04-16), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"
Sekiguchi, Masahiro (2008-04-22), Collected comments on Japanese TV Symbols (WG2 N3397)
Suignard, Michel (2008-04-23), Japanese TV symbols
Pentzlin, Karl (2008-05-07), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"
Pentzlin, Karl (2008-08-05), Proposal to rename and reassign some Japanese TV Symbols from L2/08-077R3
Stötzner, Andreas (2008-08-06), Improvement suggestions for n3469
Scherer, Markus (2008-08-08), Feedback on the Japanese TV Symbols Proposal (L2/08-077R3)
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Consensus 115-C17", UTC #115 Minutes, Approve 186 Japanese TV symbols for encoding in a future version of the standard.
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), "Consensus 119-C21", UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes
Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
6.0U+1F201..1F202, 1F232..1F23A, 1F250..1F25113Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols
Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2010-04-27), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-29), Additional variation selectors for emoji
9.0U+1F23B1Proposal to include additional Japanese TV symbols to ISO/IEC 10646, 2015-07-23
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2015-11-01), "10. Japanese TV symbols", Recommendations to UTC #145 November 2015 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "Consensus 145-C30", UTC #145 Minutes, Accept U+1F23B plus the list of 18 ARIB symbols based on the consent docket L2/15-270, for encoding in Unicode 9.0.
"M64.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31
10.0U+1F260..1F2656Afshar, Shervin; Pournader, Roozbeh (2014-11-01), Six New Symbols from Chinese Folk Religion
Moore, Lisa (2014-11-10), "Consensus 141-C28", UTC #141 Minutes, Accept the 6 symbol characters U+1F260..U+1F265 for encoding in a future version of the standard, with properties as given in L2/14-278R.
Koo, Night (2023-11-28), Update Suzhou numerals in CJK Symbols font (GitHub issue)
Lunde, Ken (2024-01-11), "19", CJK & Unihan Group Recommendations for UTC #178 Meeting
Constable, Peter (2024-01-31), "Section 19", UTC #178 Minutes

See also