Roadmap to the BMP

 

Revision	17.0.0
Authors	Michael Everson, Rick McGowan, Ken Whistler, V.S. Umamaheswaran
Date	2026-01-27
This Version	https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/bmp/bmp-17-0-0.html
Previous Version	https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/bmp/bmp-16-0-0.html
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Summary

The following table shows a map of the actual and proposed allocation on Plane 0, the BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane). A description of the presentation conventions used in the table is at the bottom of this page.

Status

This document is informative and those parts reflecting proposals are of a provisional nature. Please send corrigenda and other comments to the authors using the online contact form.

 

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
00	C0 Controls		Basic Latin						C1 Controls		Latin 1 Supplement
01	Latin Extended-A								Latin Extended-B
02	Latin Extended-B					IPA Extensions						Spacing Modifiers
03	Combining Diacritics							Greek
04	Cyrillic
05	Cyrillic Sup.			Armenian						Hebrew
06	Arabic
07	Syriac					Arabic Sup.			Thaana				N'Ko
08	Samaritan				Mandaic		Syr.Sup	Arabic Extended-B			Arabic Extended-A
09	Devanagari								Bengali
0A	Gurmukhi								Gujarati
0B	Oriya								Tamil
0C	Telugu								Kannada
0D	Malayalam								Sinhala
0E	Thai								Lao
0F	Tibetan
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
10	Myanmar										Georgian
11	Hangul Jamo
12	Ethiopic
13	Ethiopic								Eth. Sup.		Cherokee
14	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
15	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
16	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics								Ogham		Runic
17	Tagalog		Hanunóo		Buhid		Tagbanwa		Khmer
18	Mongolian											Canadian Syllabics Ext.
19	Limbu					Tai Le			New Tai Lue						Khmer Symb.
1A	Buginese		Tai Tham									Comb. Diacritics Ext.
1B	Balinese								Sundanese				Batak
1C	Lepcha					Ol Chiki			Cyr-xC	Georgian Ext.			Sund	Vedic Extensions
1D	Phonetic Extensions								Phonetic Ext. Sup.				Comb. Diacritics Sup.
1E	Latin Extended Additional
1F	Greek Extended
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
20	General Punctuation							Subs/Supers			Currency			Diac. Symbs.
21	Letterlike Symbols					Number Forms				Arrows
22	Mathematical Operators
23	Miscellaneous Technical
24	Control Pictures				OCR		Enclosed Alphanumerics
25	Box Drawing								Blocks		Geometric Shapes
26	Miscellaneous Symbols
27	Dingbats												MiscMathA			Arrows
28	Braille Patterns
29	Supplemental Arrows-B								Misc. Mathematical Symbols-B
2A	Supplemental Mathematical Operators
2B	Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
2C	Glagolitic						Latn Ext-C		Coptic
2D	Georgian Sup.			Tifinagh					Ethiopic Extended						Cyrl Ext-A
2E	Supplemental Punctuation								CJK Radicals
2F	Kangxi Radicals														???	IDC
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
30	CJK Syms. & Punct.				Hiragana						Katakana
31	Bopomofo			Hangul Compatibility Jamo						Kbn	Bpmf Ext.		CJK Strokes			Kk.
32	Enclosed CJK Letters & Months
33	CJK Compatibility
34	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
35	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
36	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
37	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
38	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
39	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
3A	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
3B	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
3C	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
3D	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
3E	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
3F	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
40	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
41	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
42	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
43	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
44	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
45	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
46	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
47	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
48	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
49	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
4A	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
4B	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
4C	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
4D	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A												Yijing Hexagrams
4E	CJK Unified Ideographs
4F	CJK Unified Ideographs
50	CJK Unified Ideographs
51	CJK Unified Ideographs
52	CJK Unified Ideographs
53	CJK Unified Ideographs
54	CJK Unified Ideographs
55	CJK Unified Ideographs
56	CJK Unified Ideographs
57	CJK Unified Ideographs
58	CJK Unified Ideographs
59	CJK Unified Ideographs
5A	CJK Unified Ideographs
5B	CJK Unified Ideographs
5C	CJK Unified Ideographs
5D	CJK Unified Ideographs
5E	CJK Unified Ideographs
5F	CJK Unified Ideographs
60	CJK Unified Ideographs
61	CJK Unified Ideographs
62	CJK Unified Ideographs
63	CJK Unified Ideographs
64	CJK Unified Ideographs
65	CJK Unified Ideographs
66	CJK Unified Ideographs
67	CJK Unified Ideographs
68	CJK Unified Ideographs
69	CJK Unified Ideographs
6A	CJK Unified Ideographs
6B	CJK Unified Ideographs
6C	CJK Unified Ideographs
6D	CJK Unified Ideographs
6E	CJK Unified Ideographs
6F	CJK Unified Ideographs
70	CJK Unified Ideographs
71	CJK Unified Ideographs
72	CJK Unified Ideographs
73	CJK Unified Ideographs
74	CJK Unified Ideographs
75	CJK Unified Ideographs
76	CJK Unified Ideographs
77	CJK Unified Ideographs
78	CJK Unified Ideographs
79	CJK Unified Ideographs
7A	CJK Unified Ideographs
7B	CJK Unified Ideographs
7C	CJK Unified Ideographs
7D	CJK Unified Ideographs
7E	CJK Unified Ideographs
7F	CJK Unified Ideographs
80	CJK Unified Ideographs
81	CJK Unified Ideographs
82	CJK Unified Ideographs
83	CJK Unified Ideographs
84	CJK Unified Ideographs
85	CJK Unified Ideographs
86	CJK Unified Ideographs
87	CJK Unified Ideographs
88	CJK Unified Ideographs
89	CJK Unified Ideographs
8A	CJK Unified Ideographs
8B	CJK Unified Ideographs
8C	CJK Unified Ideographs
8D	CJK Unified Ideographs
8E	CJK Unified Ideographs
8F	CJK Unified Ideographs
90	CJK Unified Ideographs
91	CJK Unified Ideographs
92	CJK Unified Ideographs
93	CJK Unified Ideographs
94	CJK Unified Ideographs
95	CJK Unified Ideographs
96	CJK Unified Ideographs
97	CJK Unified Ideographs
98	CJK Unified Ideographs
99	CJK Unified Ideographs
9A	CJK Unified Ideographs
9B	CJK Unified Ideographs
9C	CJK Unified Ideographs
9D	CJK Unified Ideographs
9E	CJK Unified Ideographs
9F	CJK Unified Ideographs
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
A0	Yi
A1	Yi
A2	Yi
A3	Yi
A4	Yi									Yi Radicals				Lisu
A5	Vai
A6	Vai				Cyrillic Extended-B						Bamum
A7	Mod. Tone		Latin Extended-D
A8	Syloti Nagri			Ind№	Phags-pa				Saurashtra						Deva Ext.
A9	Kayah Li			Rejang			HangulA		Javanese						Mymr Ext.B
AA	Cham						Mymr Ext.A		Tai Viet						Mtei Ext
AB	Ethiopic Ext-A			Latin Extended-E				Cherokee Supplement					Meetei Mayek
AC	Hangul Syllables
AD	Hangul Syllables
AE	Hangul Syllables
AF	Hangul Syllables
B0	Hangul Syllables
B1	Hangul Syllables
B2	Hangul Syllables
B3	Hangul Syllables
B4	Hangul Syllables
B5	Hangul Syllables
B6	Hangul Syllables
B7	Hangul Syllables
B8	Hangul Syllables
B9	Hangul Syllables
BA	Hangul Syllables
BB	Hangul Syllables
BC	Hangul Syllables
BD	Hangul Syllables
BE	Hangul Syllables
BF	Hangul Syllables
C0	Hangul Syllables
C1	Hangul Syllables
C2	Hangul Syllables
C3	Hangul Syllables
C4	Hangul Syllables
C5	Hangul Syllables
C6	Hangul Syllables
C7	Hangul Syllables
C8	Hangul Syllables
C9	Hangul Syllables
CA	Hangul Syllables
CB	Hangul Syllables
CC	Hangul Syllables
CD	Hangul Syllables
CE	Hangul Syllables
CF	Hangul Syllables
D0	Hangul Syllables
D1	Hangul Syllables
D2	Hangul Syllables
D3	Hangul Syllables
D4	Hangul Syllables
D5	Hangul Syllables
D6	Hangul Syllables
D7	Hangul Syllables											Hangul Jamo Extended-B
D8	High-half Surrogates Area for UTF-16
D9	High-half Surrogates Area for UTF-16
DA	High-half Surrogates Area for UTF-16
DB	High-half Surrogates Area for UTF-16
DC	Low-half Surrogates Area for UTF-16
DD	Low-half Surrogates Area for UTF-16
DE	Low-half Surrogates Area for UTF-16
DF	Low-half Surrogates Area for UTF-16
E0	Private Use Area
E1	Private Use Area
E2	Private Use Area
E3	Private Use Area
E4	Private Use Area
E5	Private Use Area
E6	Private Use Area
E7	Private Use Area
E8	Private Use Area
E9	Private Use Area
EA	Private Use Area
EB	Private Use Area
EC	Private Use Area
ED	Private Use Area
EE	Private Use Area
EF	Private Use Area
F0	Private Use Area
F1	Private Use Area
F2	Private Use Area
F3	Private Use Area
F4	Private Use Area
F5	Private Use Area
F6	Private Use Area
F7	Private Use Area
F8	Private Use Area
F9	CJK Compatibility Ideographs
FA	CJK Compatibility Ideographs
FB	Alphabetic Pres. Forms					Arabic Presentation Forms A
FC	Arabic Presentation Forms A
FD	Arabic Presentation Forms A													Nonchars.		APF-A
FE	Vars.	Vert.	Half	CJKcomp		Small		Arabic Presentation Forms B
FF	Halfwidth & Fullwidth Forms															Spec.
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F

Presentation conventions

• Bold Text on Blue indicates a published character collection. Bold Text on Violet indicates a published character collection with predominant right-to-left directionality. For blocks containing assigned graphic or format characters, there is a link to the charts on the Unicode web site.
• (Bold text between parentheses) indicates scripts which have been formally accepted by UTC or WG2 for processing toward inclusion in the standard. There is generally a link to a mature proposal for the script.
• (Text between parentheses) indicates scripts for which proposals have been formally submitted to the UTC or to WG2. There is generally a link to the formal proposal.
• ¿Text between question marks? indicates scripts for which detailed proposals have not yet been written. There may be a link to an exploratory code table.
• ??? in a block indicates that no suggestion has been made regarding the block allocation.
• Color highlighting is used to indicate blocks and unassigned ranges which default to right-to-left character behavior.
• Grey shading is used to indicate ranges of control characters and noncharacters.

NOTE: When scripts are actually proposed to the UTC or to WG2, the practice is to "front" them in the zones to which they are tentatively allocated, and to adjust the block size with regard to the allocation proposed.

The size and location of the unallocated script blocks are merely proposals based on the current state of planning. The size and location of a script may change during final allocation of the script.

The Roadmap Committee maintains and updates this document as a service to the Unicode Technical Committee and to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.