Basic Multilingual Plane
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The Basic Multilingual Plane is the primary block of the Unicode standard that contains the most commonly used characters for modern scripts and symbols.
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Unicode plane
ⓘ
character encoding block ⓘ subset of Unicode ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
BMP
ⓘ
Plane 0 ⓘ |
| codePointRangeEnd | U+FFFF ⓘ |
| codePointRangeEndDecimal | 65535 ⓘ |
| codePointRangeStart | U+0000 ⓘ |
| codePointRangeStartDecimal | 0 ⓘ |
| contains |
Arabic Presentation Forms-A
ⓘ
Arabic Presentation Forms-B ⓘ Arabic script characters ⓘ CJK Unified Ideographs (basic set) ⓘ Cyrillic Supplement block ⓘ Cyrillic script characters ⓘ Devanagari script characters ⓘ Greek Extended block ⓘ Greek script characters ⓘ Hangul syllables ⓘ Hebrew script characters ⓘ IPA extensions ⓘ Latin Extended blocks ⓘ Latin script characters ⓘ arrows block ⓘ block elements ⓘ box drawing characters ⓘ combining diacritical marks ⓘ control characters ⓘ currency symbols block ⓘ digits ⓘ dingbats ⓘ emoticons block ⓘ enclosed alphanumerics ⓘ general punctuation block ⓘ geometric shapes ⓘ halfwidth and fullwidth forms ⓘ letterlike symbols block ⓘ many other modern writing systems ⓘ mathematical operators block ⓘ miscellaneous symbols ⓘ miscellaneous technical symbols ⓘ most modern scripts ⓘ phonetic extensions ⓘ private use area ⓘ punctuation characters ⓘ specials block ⓘ surrogates area ⓘ |
| designGoal | cover most modern languages ⓘ |
| encodingNote |
characters can be encoded in UTF-16 without surrogate pairs
ⓘ
occupies the first 65,536 Unicode code points ⓘ |
| introducedIn | early versions of Unicode ⓘ |
| partOf |
Unicode
ⓘ
surface form:
Unicode Standard
|
| planeNumber | 0 ⓘ |
| role | primary plane for commonly used characters ⓘ |
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.