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Small Form Variants

Small Form Variants is a Unicode block containing small punctuation characters for compatibility with the Chinese National Standard CNS 11643. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was simply Small Variants.

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Small Form Variants
RangeU+FE50..U+FE6F
(32 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCommon
Symbol setsSmall punctuation
Assigned26 code points
Unused6 reserved code points
Source standardsCNS 11643
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)26 (+26)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: 12

Small Form Variants is a Unicode block containing small punctuation characters for compatibility with the Chinese National Standard CNS 11643. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was simply Small Variants.3

Small Form Variants[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+FE5x
U+FE6x
Notes
1.^As of Unicode version 17.0
2.^Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points
References

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. "3.8: Block-by-Block Charts" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. version 1.0. Unicode Consortium.