CJK Symbols and Punctuation is a Unicode block containing symbols and punctuation used for writing the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. It also contains one Chinese character.
The block has variation sequences defined for East Asian punctuation positional variants. They use (VS01) and (VS02):
Quotation marks and other punctuation have expected differences in behaviour in vertical and horizontal text. The quotation marks ãÂÂ...ãÂÂ, ãÂÂ...ã and ãÂÂ...ã rotate 90 degrees, as follows:
See also General Punctuation, for variation selectors and CJK behaviour of the Latin quotation marks âÂÂ...â and âÂÂ...âÂÂ.
The CJK Symbols and Punctuation block contains one Chinese character: . Although it is not covered under "Unified Ideographs", it is treated as a CJK character for all other intents and purposes.
The CJK Symbols and Punctuation block contains two emoji: U+3030 and U+303D.
The block has four standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the two emoji, both of which default to a text presentation.
In Unicode 1.0.1, two changes were made to this block in order to make Unicode 1.0.1 a proper subset of ISO 10646:
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block: