Unicode 16-Bit Space Allocation =============================================================================== (hex) +------------------+ 0000 | | | | | | | | alphabets, syllabaries, | | | IPA, etc. | | 8K | alphabets (Arabic, Hebrew, Roman, | | | Greek, Cyrillic, etc.) | | | | | | 1FFF | | +------------------+ 2000 | | | | | punctuation, mathematics, | | 4K | symbols technical, dingbats, etc. 2FFF | | +------------------+ 3000 | | CJK Chinese (thuyin), Japanese | | | symbols (kana), Korean (hangul) | | 4K | and symbols and pronunciation 3FFF | | phonetics +------------------+ 4000 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | united logographic | | | characters used in | . 44K . Han Chinese (hanzi), | . . Japanese (kanji), and | . . Korean (hanja) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +------------------+ : |::::::::::::::::::| : |::::::::::::::::::| : |::::::::::::::::::| : |::::::::::::::::::| : |::::::::::::::::::| for : |::::::::::::::::::| future : |::::::::::::::::::| expansion : |::::::::::::::::::| EFFF |::::::::::::::::::| +------------------+ F000 |##################| user area; codes can | |##################| user be transmitted only | |#### 4K ######| space by private agreement FFFE |#################*| +------------------+ :::: reserved for :::: future assignment :::: #### private codes, #### never to be assigned #### under Unicode * FFFF is permanently reserved as an application-specific sentinel value (e.g., possible meaning "missing character"). ===============================================================================