Unicode blocks in ConTeXt

A Unicode block is an interval of code points which represent characters that are semantically related to each other. For example, there is a Unicode block for characters from the Devanagari script which is used by several Indian languages. Another Unicode block corresponds to characters which denote mathematical operators, such as those that indicate the union and the intersection of sets.

ConTeXt has special names for all Unicode blocks. These names can be used to specify ranges of code points in the setups of several commands.

Unicode blocks

A Unicode block is an organisational unit of the Unicode code space. The Unicode code space is the set of all integers from 0 to 0x10FFF.

Every block is an interval of code points. Different blocks are disjoint from each other. In particular, the blocks form a partition of the set of all Unicode code points. Every block has a unique name that describes the common semantic nature of its code points.

A code block starts at a code point that is a multiple of 16. The number of code points in each block is also a multiple of 16. Thus, the first code point in a block is of the form 0xpqrs0, and the last code point in it is of the form 0xtuvwF.

The number of code points in a block varies. Some have just 16 code points, and some others have thousands of code points.

ConTeXt names for Unicode blocks

ConTeXt has its own names for all the Unicode blocks. These names are defined in the source file char-ini.lua. Most of them are obtained by converting the Unicode name of every blocks to the lower case, and removing the spaces between words in the name.

Table of blocks

Block	Unicode name	ConTeXt name	Chart
0000–007F	Basic Latin		U0000.pdf
0080–00FF	Latin-1 Supplement		U0080.pdf
0100–017F	Latin Extended-A		U0100.pdf
0180–024F	Latin Extended-B		U0180.pdf
0250–02AF	IPA Extensions		U0250.pdf
02B0–02FF	Spacing Modifier Letters		U02B0.pdf
0300–036F	Combining Diacritical Marks		U0300.pdf
0370–03FF	Greek and Coptic		U0370.pdf
0400–04FF	Cyrillic		U0400.pdf
0500–052F	Cyrillic Supplement		U0500.pdf
0530–058F	Armenian		U0530.pdf
0590–05FF	Hebrew		U0590.pdf
0600–06FF	Arabic		U0600.pdf
0700–074F	Syriac		U0700.pdf
0750–077F	Arabic Supplement		U0750.pdf
0780–07BF	Thaana		U0780.pdf
07C0–07FF	NKo		U07C0.pdf
0800–083F	Samaritan		U0800.pdf
0840–085F	Mandaic		U0840.pdf
0860–086F	Syriac Supplement		U0860.pdf
08A0–08FF	Arabic Extended-A		U08A0.pdf
0900–097F	Devanagari		U0900.pdf
0980–09FF	Bengali		U0980.pdf
0A00–0A7F	Gurmukhi		U0A00.pdf
0A80–0AFF	Gujarati		U0A80.pdf
0B00–0B7F	Oriya		U0B00.pdf
0B80–0BFF	Tamil		U0B80.pdf
0C00–0C7F	Telugu		U0C00.pdf
0C80–0CFF	Kannada		U0C80.pdf
0D00–0D7F	Malayalam		U0D00.pdf
0D80–0DFF	Sinhala		U0D80.pdf
0E00–0E7F	Thai		U0E00.pdf
0E80–0EFF	Lao		U0E80.pdf
0F00–0FFF	Tibetan		U0F00.pdf
1000–109F	Myanmar		U1000.pdf
10A0–10FF	Georgian		U10A0.pdf
1100–11FF	Hangul Jamo		U1100.pdf
1200–137F	Ethiopic		U1200.pdf
1380–139F	Ethiopic Supplement		U1380.pdf
13A0–13FF	Cherokee		U13A0.pdf
1400–167F	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics		U1400.pdf
1680–169F	Ogham		U1680.pdf
16A0–16FF	Runic		U16A0.pdf
1700–171F	Tagalog		U1700.pdf
1720–173F	Hanunoo		U1720.pdf
1740–175F	Buhid		U1740.pdf
1760–177F	Tagbanwa		U1760.pdf
1780–17FF	Khmer		U1780.pdf
1800–18AF	Mongolian		U1800.pdf
18B0–18FF	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended		U18B0.pdf
1900–194F	Limbu		U1900.pdf
1950–197F	Tai Le		U1950.pdf
1980–19DF	New Tai Lue		U1980.pdf
19E0–19FF	Khmer Symbols		U19E0.pdf
1A00–1A1F	Buginese		U1A00.pdf
1A20–1AAF	Tai Tham		U1A20.pdf
1AB0–1AFF	Combining Diacritical Marks Extended		U1AB0.pdf
1B00–1B7F	Balinese		U1B00.pdf
1B80–1BBF	Sundanese		U1B80.pdf
1BC0–1BFF	Batak		U1BC0.pdf
1C00–1C4F	Lepcha		U1C00.pdf
1C50–1C7F	Ol Chiki		U1C50.pdf
1C80–1C8F	Cyrillic Extended-C		U1C80.pdf
1CC0–1CCF	Sundanese Supplement		U1CC0.pdf
1CD0–1CFF	Vedic Extensions		U1CD0.pdf
1D00–1D7F	Phonetic Extensions		U1D00.pdf
1D80–1DBF	Phonetic Extensions Supplement		U1D80.pdf
1DC0–1DFF	Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement		U1DC0.pdf
1E00–1EFF	Latin Extended Additional		U1E00.pdf
1F00–1FFF	Greek Extended		U1F00.pdf
2000–206F	General Punctuation		U2000.pdf
2070–209F	Superscripts and Subscripts		U2070.pdf
20A0–20CF	Currency Symbols		U20A0.pdf
20D0–20FF	Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols		U20D0.pdf
2100–214F	Letterlike Symbols		U2100.pdf
2150–218F	Number Forms		U2150.pdf
2190–21FF	Arrows		U2190.pdf
2200–22FF	Mathematical Operators		U2200.pdf
2300–23FF	Miscellaneous Technical		U2300.pdf
2400–243F	Control Pictures		U2400.pdf
2440–245F	Optical Character Recognition		U2440.pdf
2460–24FF	Enclosed Alphanumerics		U2460.pdf
2500–257F	Box Drawing		U2500.pdf
2580–259F	Block Elements		U2580.pdf
25A0–25FF	Geometric Shapes		U25A0.pdf
2600–26FF	Miscellaneous Symbols		U2600.pdf
2700–27BF	Dingbats		U2700.pdf
27C0–27EF	Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A		U27C0.pdf
27F0–27FF	Supplemental Arrows-A		U27F0.pdf
2800–28FF	Braille Patterns		U2800.pdf
2900–297F	Supplemental Arrows-B		U2900.pdf
2980–29FF	Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B		U2980.pdf
2A00–2AFF	Supplemental Mathematical Operators		U2A00.pdf
2B00–2BFF	Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows		U2B00.pdf
2C00–2C5F	Glagolitic		U2C00.pdf
2C60–2C7F	Latin Extended-C		U2C60.pdf
2C80–2CFF	Coptic		U2C80.pdf
2D00–2D2F	Georgian Supplement		U2D00.pdf
2D30–2D7F	Tifinagh		U2D30.pdf
2D80–2DDF	Ethiopic Extended		U2D80.pdf
2DE0–2DFF	Cyrillic Extended-A		U2DE0.pdf
2E00–2E7F	Supplemental Punctuation		U2E00.pdf
2E80–2EFF	CJK Radicals Supplement		U2E80.pdf
2F00–2FDF	Kangxi Radicals		U2F00.pdf
2FF0–2FFF	Ideographic Description Characters		U2FF0.pdf
3000–303F	CJK Symbols and Punctuation		U3000.pdf
3040–309F	Hiragana		U3040.pdf
30A0–30FF	Katakana		U30A0.pdf
3100–312F	Bopomofo		U3100.pdf
3130–318F	Hangul Compatibility Jamo		U3130.pdf
3190–319F	Kanbun		U3190.pdf
31A0–31BF	Bopomofo Extended		U31A0.pdf
31C0–31EF	CJK Strokes		U31C0.pdf
31F0–31FF	Katakana Phonetic Extensions		U31F0.pdf
3200–32FF	Enclosed CJK Letters and Months		U3200.pdf
3300–33FF	CJK Compatibility		U3300.pdf
3400–4DBF	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A		U3400.pdf
4DC0–4DFF	Yijing Hexagram Symbols		U4DC0.pdf
4E00–9FFF	CJK Unified Ideographs		U4E00.pdf
A000–A48F	Yi Syllables		UA000.pdf
A490–A4CF	Yi Radicals		UA490.pdf
A4D0–A4FF	Lisu		UA4D0.pdf
A500–A63F	Vai		UA500.pdf
A640–A69F	Cyrillic Extended-B		UA640.pdf
A6A0–A6FF	Bamum		UA6A0.pdf
A700–A71F	Modifier Tone Letters		UA700.pdf
A720–A7FF	Latin Extended-D		UA720.pdf
A800–A82F	Syloti Nagri		UA800.pdf
A830–A83F	Common Indic Number Forms		UA830.pdf
A840–A87F	Phags-pa		UA840.pdf
A880–A8DF	Saurashtra		UA880.pdf
A8E0–A8FF	Devanagari Extended		UA8E0.pdf
A900–A92F	Kayah Li		UA900.pdf
A930–A95F	Rejang		UA930.pdf
A960–A97F	Hangul Jamo Extended-A		UA960.pdf
A980–A9DF	Javanese		UA980.pdf
A9E0–A9FF	Myanmar Extended-B		UA9E0.pdf
AA00–AA5F	Cham		UAA00.pdf
AA60–AA7F	Myanmar Extended-A		UAA60.pdf
AA80–AADF	Tai Viet		UAA80.pdf
AAE0–AAFF	Meetei Mayek Extensions		UAAE0.pdf
AB00–AB2F	Ethiopic Extended-A		UAB00.pdf
AB30–AB6F	Latin Extended-E		UAB30.pdf
AB70–ABBF	Cherokee Supplement		UAB70.pdf
ABC0–ABFF	Meetei Mayek		UABC0.pdf
AC00–D7AF	Hangul Syllables		UAC00.pdf
D7B0–D7FF	Hangul Jamo Extended-B		UD7B0.pdf
D800–DB7F	High Surrogates		UD800.pdf
DB80–DBFF	High Private Use Surrogates		UDB80.pdf
DC00–DFFF	Low Surrogates		UDC00.pdf
E000–F8FF	Private Use Area		UE000.pdf
F900–FAFF	CJK Compatibility Ideographs		UF900.pdf
FB00–FB4F	Alphabetic Presentation Forms		UFB00.pdf
FB50–FDFF	Arabic Presentation Forms-A		UFB50.pdf
FE00–FE0F	Variation Selectors		UFE00.pdf
FE10–FE1F	Vertical Forms		UFE10.pdf
FE20–FE2F	Combining Half Marks		UFE20.pdf
FE30–FE4F	CJK Compatibility Forms		UFE30.pdf
FE50–FE6F	Small Form Variants		UFE50.pdf
FE70–FEFF	Arabic Presentation Forms-B		UFE70.pdf
FF00–FFEF	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms		UFF00.pdf
FFF0–FFFF	Specials		UFFF0.pdf
10000–1007F	Linear B Syllabary		U10000.pdf
10080–100FF	Linear B Ideograms		U10080.pdf
10100–1013F	Aegean Numbers		U10100.pdf
10140–1018F	Ancient Greek Numbers		U10140.pdf
10190–101CF	Ancient Symbols		U10190.pdf
101D0–101FF	Phaistos Disc		U101D0.pdf
10280–1029F	Lycian		U10280.pdf
102A0–102DF	Carian		U102A0.pdf
102E0–102FF	Coptic Epact Numbers		U102E0.pdf
10300–1032F	Old Italic		U10300.pdf
10330–1034F	Gothic		U10330.pdf
10350–1037F	Old Permic		U10350.pdf
10380–1039F	Ugaritic		U10380.pdf
103A0–103DF	Old Persian		U103A0.pdf
10400–1044F	Deseret		U10400.pdf
10450–1047F	Shavian		U10450.pdf
10480–104AF	Osmanya		U10480.pdf
104B0–104FF	Osage		U104B0.pdf
10500–1052F	Elbasan		U10500.pdf
10530–1056F	Caucasian Albanian		U10530.pdf
10600–1077F	Linear A		U10600.pdf
10800–1083F	Cypriot Syllabary		U10800.pdf
10840–1085F	Imperial Aramaic		U10840.pdf
10860–1087F	Palmyrene		U10860.pdf
10880–108AF	Nabataean		U10880.pdf
108E0–108FF	Hatran		U108E0.pdf
10900–1091F	Phoenician		U10900.pdf
10920–1093F	Lydian		U10920.pdf
10980–1099F	Meroitic Hieroglyphs		U10980.pdf
109A0–109FF	Meroitic Cursive		U109A0.pdf
10A00–10A5F	Kharoshthi		U10A00.pdf
10A60–10A7F	Old South Arabian		U10A60.pdf
10A80–10A9F	Old North Arabian		U10A80.pdf
10AC0–10AFF	Manichaean		U10AC0.pdf
10B00–10B3F	Avestan		U10B00.pdf
10B40–10B5F	Inscriptional Parthian		U10B40.pdf
10B60–10B7F	Inscriptional Pahlavi		U10B60.pdf
10B80–10BAF	Psalter Pahlavi		U10B80.pdf
10C00–10C4F	Old Turkic		U10C00.pdf
10C80–10CFF	Old Hungarian		U10C80.pdf
10E60–10E7F	Rumi Numeral Symbols		U10E60.pdf
11000–1107F	Brahmi		U11000.pdf
11080–110CF	Kaithi		U11080.pdf
110D0–110FF	Sora Sompeng		U110D0.pdf
11100–1114F	Chakma		U11100.pdf
11150–1117F	Mahajani		U11150.pdf
11180–111DF	Sharada		U11180.pdf
111E0–111FF	Sinhala Archaic Numbers		U111E0.pdf
11200–1124F	Khojki		U11200.pdf
11280–112AF	Multani		U11280.pdf
112B0–112FF	Khudawadi		U112B0.pdf
11300–1137F	Grantha		U11300.pdf
11400–1147F	Newa		U11400.pdf
11480–114DF	Tirhuta		U11480.pdf
11580–115FF	Siddham		U11580.pdf
11600–1165F	Modi		U11600.pdf
11660–1167F	Mongolian Supplement		U11660.pdf
11680–116CF	Takri		U11680.pdf
11700–1173F	Ahom		U11700.pdf
118A0–118FF	Warang Citi		U118A0.pdf
11A00–11A4F	Zanabazar Square		U11A00.pdf
11A50–11AAF	Soyombo		U11A50.pdf
11AC0–11AFF	Pau Cin Hau		U11AC0.pdf
11C00–11C6F	Bhaiksuki		U11C00.pdf
11C70–11CBF	Marchen		U11C70.pdf
11D00–11D5F	Masaram Gondi		U11D00.pdf
12000–123FF	Cuneiform		U12000.pdf
12400–1247F	Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation		U12400.pdf
12480–1254F	Early Dynastic Cuneiform		U12480.pdf
13000–1342F	Egyptian Hieroglyphs		U13000.pdf
14400–1467F	Anatolian Hieroglyphs		U14400.pdf
16800–16A3F	Bamum Supplement		U16800.pdf
16A40–16A6F	Mro		U16A40.pdf
16AD0–16AFF	Bassa Vah		U16AD0.pdf
16B00–16B8F	Pahawh Hmong		U16B00.pdf
16F00–16F9F	Miao		U16F00.pdf
16FE0–16FFF	Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation		U16FE0.pdf
17000–187FF	Tangut		U17000.pdf
18800–18AFF	Tangut Components		U18800.pdf
1B000–1B0FF	Kana Supplement		U1B000.pdf
1B100–1B12F	Kana Extended-A		U1B100.pdf
1B170–1B2FF	Nushu		U1B170.pdf
1BC00–1BC9F	Duployan		U1BC00.pdf
1BCA0–1BCAF	Shorthand Format Controls		U1BCA0.pdf
1D000–1D0FF	Byzantine Musical Symbols		U1D000.pdf
1D100–1D1FF	Musical Symbols		U1D100.pdf
1D200–1D24F	Ancient Greek Musical Notation		U1D200.pdf
1D300–1D35F	Tai Xuan Jing Symbols		U1D300.pdf
1D360–1D37F	Counting Rod Numerals		U1D360.pdf
1D400–1D7FF	Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols		U1D400.pdf
1D800–1DAAF	Sutton SignWriting		U1D800.pdf
1E000–1E02F	Glagolitic Supplement		U1E000.pdf
1E800–1E8DF	Mende Kikakui		U1E800.pdf
1E900–1E95F	Adlam		U1E900.pdf
1EE00–1EEFF	Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols		U1EE00.pdf
1F000–1F02F	Mahjong Tiles		U1F000.pdf
1F030–1F09F	Domino Tiles		U1F030.pdf
1F0A0–1F0FF	Playing Cards		U1F0A0.pdf
1F100–1F1FF	Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement		U1F100.pdf
1F200–1F2FF	Enclosed Ideographic Supplement		U1F200.pdf
1F300–1F5FF	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs		U1F300.pdf
1F600–1F64F	Emoticons		U1F600.pdf
1F650–1F67F	Ornamental Dingbats		U1F650.pdf
1F680–1F6FF	Transport and Map Symbols		U1F680.pdf
1F700–1F77F	Alchemical Symbols		U1F700.pdf
1F780–1F7FF	Geometric Shapes Extended		U1F780.pdf
1F800–1F8FF	Supplemental Arrows-C		U1F800.pdf
1F900–1F9FF	Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs		U1F900.pdf
20000–2A6DF	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B		U20000.pdf
2A700–2B73F	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C		U2A700.pdf
2B740–2B81F	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D		U2B740.pdf
2B820–2CEAF	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E		U2B820.pdf
2CEB0–2EBEF	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F		U2CEB0.pdf
2F800–2FA1F	CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement		U2F800.pdf
E0000–E007F	Tags		UE0000.pdf
E0100–E01EF	Variation Selectors Supplement		UE0100.pdf
F0000–FFFFF	Supplementary Private Use Area-A		UF0000.pdf
100000–10FFFF	Supplementary Private Use Area-B		U100000.pdf