CJK Unified Ideographs

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The CJK Unified Ideographs Unicode block contains the primary repertoire of Han characters, which form the foundation of written communication in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This block supports the digital representation and processing of most modern and historical East Asian texts.
CJK
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Code (Short Name / Abbr)
CJK_Unified_Ideographs
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Long Name
20940
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Number of Characters

CJK Unified Ideographs is a Unicode block containing the most common CJK ideographs used in modern Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese characters. When contrasted with other blocks containing CJK Unified Ideographs, it is also referred to as the Unified Repertoire and Ordering (URO). The block has hundreds of variation sequences defined for standardized variants. It also has tens of thousands of ideographic variation sequences registered in the Unicode Ideographic Variation Database (IVD). These sequences specify the desired glyph variant for a given Unicode character.

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