CJK Compatibility Forms

Not to be confused with CJK Compatibility or CJK Compatibility Ideographs.

For a list of all CJK characters encoded in Unicode, see CJK Unified Ideographs.

CJK Compatibility Forms
Range	U FE30..U FE4F (32 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Common
Assigned	32 code points
Unused	0 reserved code points
Source standards	CNS 11643
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)	28 ( 28)
3.2 (2002)	30 ( 2)
4.0 (2003)	32 ( 2)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note:

CJK Compatibility Forms is a Unicode block containing vertical glyph variants for east Asian compatibility. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was CNS 11643 Compatibility, in reference to CNS 11643.

CJK Compatibility Forms[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U FE3x

︰

︱

︲

︳

︴

︵

︶

︷

︸

︹

︺

︻

︼

︽

︾

︿

U FE4x

﹀

﹁

﹂

﹃

﹄

﹅

﹆

﹇

﹈

﹉

﹊

﹋

﹌

﹍

﹎

﹏

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the CJK Compatibility Forms block:

Version	Final code points	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.0.0	U FE30..FE44, FE49..FE4F	28			(to be determined)
3.2	U FE45..FE46	2	L2/99-238		Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 1999-07-15
				N2092	Addition of forty eight characters, 1999-09-13
			L2/00-024		Shibano, Kohji (2000-01-31), JCS proposal revised
			L2/00-098, L2/00-098-page5	N2195	Rationale for non-Kanji characters proposed by JCS committee, 2000-03-15
			L2/00-234	N2203 (rtf, txt)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.20", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
			L2/01-114	N2328	Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3503, ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000/PDAM 1, 2001-03-09
4.0	U FE47..FE48	2	L2/99-353	N2056	"3", Amendment of the part concerning the Korean characters in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1998 amendment 5, 1999-07-29
			L2/99-380		Proposal for a New Work item (NP) to amend the Korean part in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993, 1999-12-07
			L2/99-380.3		Annex B, Special characters compatible with KPS 9566-97 (To be extended), 1999-12-07
			L2/00-084	N2182	"3", Amendment of the part concerning the Korean characters in ISO/IEC 10646-1:1998 amendment 5 (Cover page and outline of proposal L2/99-380), 1999-12-07
			L2/99-382		Whistler, Ken (1999-12-09), "2.3", Comments to accompany a U.S. NO vote on JTC1 N5999, SC2 N3393, New Work item proposal (NP) for an amendment of the Korean part of ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993
			L2/00-066	N2170 (pdf, doc)	"3", The technical justification of the proposal to amend the Korean character part of ISO/IEC 10646-1 (proposed addition of 79 symbolic characters), 2000-02-10
			L2/00-073	N2167	Karlsson, Kent (2000-03-02), Comments on DPRK New Work Item proposal on Korean characters
			L2/00-285	N2244	Proposal for the Addition of 82 Symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, 2000-08-10
			L2/00-291		Everson, Michael (2000-08-30), Comments to Korean proposals (L2/00-284 - 289)
				N2282	Report of the meeting of the Korean script ad hoc group, 2000-09-21
			L2/01-349	N2374R	Proposal to add of 70 symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, 2001-09-03
			L2/01-387	N2390	Kim, Kyongsok (2001-10-13), ROK's Comments about DPRK's proposal, WG2 N 2374, to add 70 symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000
			L2/01-388	N2392	Kim, Kyongsok (2001-10-16), A Report of Korean Script ad hoc group meeting on Oct. 15, 2001
			L2/01-420		Whistler, Ken (2001-10-30), "f. Miscellaneous symbol additions from DPRK standard", WG2 (Singapore) Resolution Consent Docket for UTC
			L2/01-458	N2407	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-11-16), Request to Korean ad hoc group to generate mapping tables between ROK and DPRK national standards
			L2/02-372	N2453 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-10-30), "T.12", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 42

See also

• CJK Unified Ideographs
• Vertical Forms