General_Category

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General_Category is a Unicode character property that classifies characters into broad categories such as letters, numbers, punctuation, and symbols for text processing and analysis.

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General_Category canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Unicode character property
text processing property
abbreviation gc
appliesTo Unicode code points
definedBy Unicode Standard NERFINISHED
documentedIn Unicode Standard Annex #44 NERFINISHED
hasAbbreviation C
L
M
N
P
S
Z
hasCategory Letter
Mark NERFINISHED
Number
Other
Punctuation
Separator
Symbol
hasPurpose classify Unicode characters into broad categories
support text processing and analysis
hasSubcategory Close_Punctuation
Connector_Punctuation
Control
Currency_Symbol
Dash_Punctuation
Decimal_Number
Enclosing_Mark
Final_Punctuation
Format
Initial_Punctuation
Letter_Number
Line_Separator
Lowercase_Letter
Math_Symbol
Modifier_Letter
Modifier_Symbol
Nonspacing_Mark
Open_Punctuation
Other_Letter
Other_Number
Other_Punctuation
Other_Symbol
Paragraph_Separator
Private_Use
Space_Separator
Spacing_Mark
Surrogate
Titlecase_Letter
Unassigned
Uppercase_Letter
representedInFile UnicodeData.txt NERFINISHED
usedFor font and layout decisions
lexical analysis
regular expression character classes
syntax highlighting
text segmentation
usedIn Unicode Character Database NERFINISHED

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East_Asian_Width relatedTo General_Category