Plane 0

E123125

Plane 0, formally known as the Basic Multilingual Plane, is the primary block of the Unicode standard that contains the most commonly used characters for modern languages and symbols.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Plane 0 canonical 1
Plane 0 (BMP) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Unicode plane
character encoding block
alsoKnownAs BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
codePointRangeEnd U+FFFF
codePointRangeStart U+0000
comparedToOtherPlanes contains majority of everyday text characters
contains ASCII characters
Arabic script characters
CJK Unified Ideographs
surface form: CJK Unified Ideographs (basic set)

Cyrillic script characters
Devanagari script characters
Greek script characters
Hangul syllables
Hebrew script characters
Hiragana characters
Katakana characters
Latin script characters
Latin-1 Supplement block
basic Latin block
combining diacritical marks
control characters
currency symbols
emojis (early/basic set)
general punctuation block
many punctuation characters
many symbol characters
mathematical operators
most commonly used characters for modern languages
various script-specific blocks
designedFor modern language text
encodingNote in UTF-16, Plane 0 characters are represented as single 16-bit code units
excludes supplementary characters beyond U+FFFF
governedBy Unicode Consortium
hasAbbreviation U+0000–U+FFFF
hasPlaneType multilingual
hasTotalCodePoints 65536
introducedIn Unicode 1.0
isMostWidelyUsedPlane true
isPrimaryBlockOf Unicode
partOf Unicode
surface form: Unicode Standard
planeNumber 0
positionInUnicode first plane
usesEncodingForm UTF-16
UTF-32
UTF-8

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

BMP identifier Plane 0
subject surface form: Basic Multilingual Plane
this entity surface form: Plane 0 (BMP)