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Unicode BlocksTopics
- Typography → Accents & Diacritics (30)
- Numbers & Numerals → Accounting & Quantity Marks (7)
- Pictographs & Emoji → People & body → Activities (12)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Activities (85)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Activities & Transport (4)
- Writing Systems → Adlam (88)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Smileys & emotion → Affectionate (9)
- Writing Systems → Ahom (65)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Travel & places → Air transportation (13)
- Science & Measurement → Alchemical Symbols (128)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Symbols → Alphanumeric symbols (39)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Animals & nature → Amphibians (1)
- Writing Systems → Anatolian Hieroglyphs (583)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Animals & nature (155)
- Writing Systems → Arabic (1,452)
- Math & Logic → Arithmetic (74)
- Writing Systems → Armenian (99)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Symbols → Arrows (21)
- Arrows & Direction (854)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Activities → Arts & crafts (7)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Food & drink → Asian (17)
- Science & Measurement → Astronomical Aspects (8)
- Science & Measurement → Astronomy & Planets (10)
- Pictographs & Emoji → People & body → Athletics (17)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Symbols → Audio & video symbols (25)
- Writing Systems → Avestan (61)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Activities → Award medals (6)
- Writing Systems → Balinese (127)
- Writing Systems → Bamum (657)
- Writing Systems → Bassa Vah (36)
- Writing Systems → Batak (56)
- Writing Systems → Bengali (98)
- Writing Systems → Beria Erfe (50)
- Writing Systems → Bhaiksuki (97)
- Religion & Cultural Symbols → Biblical Editorial Signs (1)
- Invisible & Formatting → Bidirectional Formatting (12)
- Typography → Binding Signature Marks (1)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Animals & nature → Birds (20)
- Games & Recreation → Chess Pieces → Bishop (18)
- Computing & UI → Block Elements (32)
- Pictographs & Emoji → People & body → Body parts (18)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Books & paper (17)
- Writing Systems → Bopomofo (77)
- Computing & UI → Box Drawing (128)
- Typography → Brackets & Parentheses (177)
- Writing Systems → Brahmi (115)
- Braille (256)
- Writing Systems → Braille (256)
- Writing Systems → Buginese (30)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Animals & nature → Bugs (16)
- Writing Systems → Buhid (20)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Travel & places → Buildings (27)
- Typography → Bullets & Markers (15)
- Math & Logic → Calculus (40)
- Writing Systems → Canadian Aboriginal (726)
- Games & Recreation → Card Suits (8)
- Writing Systems → Carian (49)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Smileys & emotion → Cat faces (9)
- Writing Systems → Caucasian Albanian (53)
- Writing Systems → Chakma (71)
- Writing Systems → Cham (83)
- Computing & UI → Checks & Ballot Marks (19)
- Science & Measurement → Chemistry & Physics Marks (2)
- Science & Measurement → Chemistry Symbols (121)
- Writing Systems → Cherokee (172)
- Games & Recreation → Chess Pieces (138)
- Writing Systems → Chorasmian (28)
- Shapes & Patterns → Circles (422)
- Religion & Cultural Symbols → Civic & Political Emblems (2)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Clothing (47)
- Writing Systems → Combining Marks (2,580)
- Computing & UI → Communication Symbols (19)
- Typography → Company Marks (1)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Components (9)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Computer (14)
- Computing & UI (1,409)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Smileys & emotion → Concerned (27)
- Invisible & Formatting → Control Characters (65)
- Computing & UI → Control Pictures (42)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Food & drink → Cooked / prepared (34)
- Writing Systems → Coptic (137)
- Typography → Copyright & Legal Marks (9)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Smileys & emotion → Costumed & creatures (8)
- Shapes & Patterns → Crossed & Converging Lines (3)
- Religion & Cultural Symbols → Cultural & Religious Emblems (18)
- Historical Writing → Cuneiform (1,557)
- Writing Systems → Cuneiform (1,393)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Symbols → Currencies (2)
- Currency (86)
- Currency → Currency Signs (31)
- Writing Systems → Cypriot (55)
- Writing Systems → Cypro Minoan (99)
- Writing Systems → Cyrillic (508)
- Typography → Dashes & Hyphens (27)
- Math & Logic → Definite Description Operator (1)
- Writing Systems → Deseret (80)
- Writing Systems → Devanagari (165)
- Games & Recreation → Dice (13)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Food & drink → Dishware (7)
- Writing Systems → Dives Akuru (72)
- Writing Systems → Dogra (60)
- Games & Recreation → Domino Tiles (100)
- Arrows & Direction → Down (100)
- Games & Recreation → Draughts Pieces (4)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Food & drink → Drink (20)
- Writing Systems → Duployan (143)
- Historical Writing → Egyptian Hieroglyphs (5,105)
- Writing Systems → Egyptian Hieroglyphs (5,105)
- Writing Systems → Elbasan (40)
- Writing Systems → Elymaic (23)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Smileys & emotion → Emotions (14)
- Writing Systems → Enclosed Letters & Ideographs (271)
- Writing Systems → Enclosed Writing Forms (3)
- Math & Logic → Equality & Approximation (158)
- Writing Systems → Ethiopic (523)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Activities → Events & holidays (21)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Faces & Expressions (22)
- Pictographs & Emoji → People & body → Family (5)
- Pictographs & Emoji → People & body → Fantasy (14)
- Pictographs & Emoji → People & body → Finger pointing (7)
- Pictographs & Emoji → People & body → Fingers closed (6)
- Pictographs & Emoji → People & body → Fingers open (11)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Flags (12)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Flags (5)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Animals & nature → Flowers (12)
- Ornaments & Dingbats → Flowers & Floral Marks (14)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Food & drink (129)
- Math & Logic → Fractions (20)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Food & drink → Fruit (19)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Activities → Games & hobbies (24)
- Games & Recreation (394)
- Writing Systems → Garay (69)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Symbols → Gender signs (3)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Travel & places → Geographic locations (10)
- Religion & Cultural Symbols → Geomantic Figures (16)
- Writing Systems → Georgian (173)
- Pictographs & Emoji → People & body → Gestures (10)
- Writing Systems → Glagolitic (134)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Travel & places → Globes & maps (7)
- Writing Systems → Gothic (27)
- Writing Systems → Grantha (85)
- Writing Systems → Greek (520)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Travel & places → Ground transportation (50)
- Writing Systems → Gujarati (91)
- Writing Systems → Gunjala Gondi (63)
- Writing Systems → Gurmukhi (80)
- Writing Systems → Gurung Khema (58)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Components → Hair styles (4)
- Writing Systems → Han Ideographs (103,404)
- Pictographs & Emoji → People & body → Hand props (3)
- Pictographs & Emoji → People & body → Hand signs (9)
- Pictographs & Emoji → People & body → Hands (7)
- Writing Systems → Hangul (11,739)
- Writing Systems → Hanifi Rohingya (50)
- Writing Systems → Hanunoo (21)
- Writing Systems → Hatran (26)
- Shapes & Patterns → Hearts (35)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Smileys & emotion → Hearts (23)
- Writing Systems → Hebrew (136)
- Writing Systems → Hiragana (382)
- Currency → Historical Currency Signs (11)
- Historical Writing → Historical Inscription Marks (2)
- Science & Measurement → Historical Units & Measures (9)
- Historical Writing (6,710)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Travel & places → Hotel (2)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Household items (25)
- Writing Systems → Ideographic Annotation Marks (4)
- Writing Systems → Ideographic Components (384)
- Writing Systems → Imperial Aramaic (31)
- Computing & UI → Industry & Standards (10)
- Math & Logic → Infinity (6)
- Writing Systems → Inscriptional Pahlavi (27)
- Writing Systems → Inscriptional Parthian (30)
- Invisible & Formatting (516)
- Writing Systems → Javanese (90)
- Invisible & Formatting → Joining & Word Boundaries (8)
- Writing Systems → Jurchen (965)
- Writing Systems → Kaithi (68)
- Writing Systems → Kannada (92)
- Writing Systems → Katakana (327)
- Writing Systems → Kawi (87)
- Writing Systems → Kayah Li (47)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Symbols → Keypad characters (1)
- Writing Systems → Kharoshthi (68)
- Writing Systems → Khitan Small Script (477)
- Writing Systems → Khmer (146)
- Writing Systems → Khojki (65)
- Writing Systems → Khudawadi (69)
- Games & Recreation → Chess Pieces → King (16)
- Writing Systems → Kirat Rai (58)
- Games & Recreation → Chess Pieces → Knight (34)
- Writing Systems → Lao (83)
- Writing Systems → Latin (1,653)
- Typography → Law & Jurisprudence (1)
- Ornaments & Dingbats → Leaves & Flourishes (48)
- Arrows & Direction → Left (161)
- Computing & UI → Legacy Computing (945)
- Writing Systems → Lepcha (74)
- Religion & Cultural Symbols → Life Events & Memorials (6)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Light, film & video (16)
- Writing Systems → Limbu (68)
- Writing Systems → Linear A (341)
- Writing Systems → Linear B (211)
- Writing Systems → Lisu (49)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Lock & keys (6)
- Math & Logic → Logic (33)
- Writing Systems → Lycian (29)
- Writing Systems → Lydian (27)
- Writing Systems → Mahajani (39)
- Games & Recreation → Mahjong Tiles (44)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Mail (13)
- Writing Systems → Makasar (25)
- Writing Systems → Malayalam (118)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Animals & nature → Mammals (63)
- Writing Systems → Mandaic (29)
- Writing Systems → Manichaean (51)
- Writing Systems → Marchen (68)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Animals & nature → Marine life (18)
- Writing Systems → Masaram Gondi (75)
- Math & Logic (2,195)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Symbols → Math symbols (6)
- Math & Logic → Mathematical Alphabets (1,009)
- Science & Measurement → Measurement Notation (3)
- Writing Systems → Medefaidrin (91)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Medical (7)
- Science & Measurement → Medical & Pharmacy Marks (7)
- Writing Systems → Meetei Mayek (79)
- Writing Systems → Mende Kikakui (213)
- Writing Systems → Meroitic Cursive (90)
- Writing Systems → Meroitic Hieroglyphs (32)
- Writing Systems → Miao (149)
- Science & Measurement → Minor Planets & Asteroids (22)
- Writing Systems → Modi (79)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Money (11)
- Writing Systems → Mongolian (168)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Smileys & emotion → Monkey faces (3)
- Writing Systems → Mro (43)
- Writing Systems → Multani (38)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Music (9)
- Music & Notation (846)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Musical instruments (13)
- Writing Systems → Myanmar (243)
- Writing Systems → Nabataean (40)
- Writing Systems → Nag Mundari (42)
- Writing Systems → Nandinagari (65)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Smileys & emotion → Negative (8)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Smileys & emotion → Neutral / skeptical (12)
- Writing Systems → New Tai Lue (83)
- Writing Systems → Newa (97)
- Writing Systems → Nko (62)
- Music & Notation → Notes & Rests (41)
- Numbers & Numerals (2,254)
- Writing Systems → Nushu (397)
- Writing Systems → Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong (71)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects (265)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Office supplies (23)
- Writing Systems → Ogham (29)
- Writing Systems → Ol Chiki (48)
- Writing Systems → Ol Onal (44)
- Writing Systems → Old Hungarian (108)
- Writing Systems → Old Italic (39)
- Writing Systems → Old North Arabian (32)
- Writing Systems → Old Permic (43)
- Writing Systems → Old Persian (50)
- Writing Systems → Old Sogdian (40)
- Writing Systems → Old South Arabian (32)
- Writing Systems → Old Turkic (73)
- Writing Systems → Old Uyghur (26)
- Computing & UI → Optical Character Recognition (11)
- Writing Systems → Oriya (93)
- Ornaments & Dingbats (249)
- Writing Systems → Osage (72)
- Writing Systems → Osmanya (40)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Flags → Other flags (5)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Other objects (9)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Travel & places → Other places (17)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Animals & nature → Other plants (17)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Symbols → Other symbols (22)
- Writing Systems → Pahawh Hmong (127)
- Writing Systems → Palmyrene (32)
- Writing Systems → Pau Cin Hau (57)
- Games & Recreation → Chess Pieces → Pawn (16)
- Pictographs & Emoji → People & body → People (12)
- Pictographs & Emoji → People & body (158)
- Pictographs & Emoji → People & body → People symbols (7)
- Writing Systems → Phags Pa (56)
- Historical Writing → Phaistos Disc Signs (46)
- Writing Systems → Phoenician (29)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Phone (6)
- Writing Systems → Phonetic Modifier Signs (69)
- Pictographs & Emoji (1,716)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Places & Map Symbols (9)
- Ornaments & Dingbats → Plant Emblems (1)
- Games & Recreation → Playing Cards & Suits (83)
- Computing & UI → Pointers & Hands (169)
- Science & Measurement → Pound Weight Sign (1)
- Private Use (137,468)
- Writing Systems → Proto Cuneiform (164)
- Writing Systems → Psalter Pahlavi (29)
- Punctuation (860)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Symbols → Punctuation (7)
- Games & Recreation → Chess Pieces → Queen (18)
- Typography → Quotes (39)
- Writing Systems → Reading & Tone Marks (128)
- Computing & UI → Recycling & Material Marks (13)
- Typography → Reference & Editorial Marks (6)
- Writing Systems → Rejang (37)
- Religion & Cultural Symbols (233)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Travel & places → Religious buildings (6)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Symbols → Religious symbols (13)
- Computing & UI → Replacement & Object Markers (2)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Animals & nature → Reptiles (8)
- Pictographs & Emoji → People & body → Resting (3)
- Arrows & Direction → Right (197)
- Typography → Rights & Ownership Marks (6)
- Pictographs & Emoji → People & body → Roles & careers (17)
- Games & Recreation → Chess Pieces → Rook (18)
- Writing Systems → Runic (86)
- Writing Systems → Samaritan (61)
- Writing Systems → Saurashtra (82)
- Science & Measurement (564)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Science equipment (7)
- Writing Systems → Seal (11,328)
- Math & Logic → Sets & Membership (101)
- Science & Measurement → Sex & Gender Signs (11)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Symbols → Shapes & colors (34)
- Shapes & Patterns (1,376)
- Writing Systems → Sharada (104)
- Writing Systems → Shavian (48)
- Games & Recreation → Shogi Pieces (4)
- Writing Systems → Siddham (92)
- Writing Systems → Sidetic (26)
- Writing Systems → SignWriting (672)
- Writing Systems → Sinhala (111)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Components → Skin tones (5)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Smileys & emotion → Sleepy (6)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Smileys & emotion (163)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Smileys & emotion → Smiling (14)
- Writing Systems → Sogdian (42)
- Writing Systems → Sora Sompeng (35)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Sound (9)
- Writing Systems → Soyombo (83)
- Invisible & Formatting → Spaces & Separators (19)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Activities → Sports (27)
- Shapes & Patterns → Squares & Diamonds (594)
- Shapes & Patterns → Stars & Asterisks (112)
- Writing Systems → Sundanese (72)
- Writing Systems → Sunuwar (44)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Food & drink → Sweets & candy (14)
- Writing Systems → Syloti Nagri (45)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Symbols (212)
- Writing Systems → Syriac (88)
- Writing Systems → Tagalog (23)
- Writing Systems → Tagbanwa (18)
- Writing Systems → Tai Le (35)
- Writing Systems → Tai Tham (127)
- Writing Systems → Tai Viet (72)
- Writing Systems → Tai Yo (55)
- Writing Systems → Takri (68)
- Writing Systems → Tamil (123)
- Writing Systems → Tangsa (89)
- Writing Systems → Tangut (7,061)
- Science & Measurement → Technical Notation (216)
- Writing Systems → Telugu (101)
- Writing Systems → Thaana (50)
- Writing Systems → Thai (86)
- Writing Systems → Tibetan (207)
- Writing Systems → Tifinagh (59)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Travel & places → Time (31)
- Science & Measurement → Time & Calendar Notation (68)
- Writing Systems → Tirhuta (82)
- Writing Systems → Todhri (52)
- Writing Systems → Tolong Siki (54)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Tools (26)
- Writing Systems → Toto (31)
- Religion & Cultural Symbols → Traditional Calendar Signs (1)
- Religion & Cultural Symbols → Traditional Symbol Systems (151)
- Computing & UI → Traffic & Road Signs (17)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Symbols → Transport signs (13)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Travel & places (219)
- Shapes & Patterns → Triangles (192)
- Religion & Cultural Symbols → Trigrams & Yin–Yang Lines (19)
- Writing Systems → Tulu Tigalari (80)
- Typography (311)
- Writing Systems → Ugaritic (31)
- Science & Measurement → Units & Measurement (6)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Smileys & emotion → Unwell (11)
- Arrows & Direction → Up (95)
- Writing Systems → Vai (300)
- Invisible & Formatting → Variation Selectors & Tags (357)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Food & drink → Vegetables (18)
- Computing & UI → Vertical Line Signs (3)
- Writing Systems → Vithkuqi (70)
- Writing Systems → Wancho (59)
- Writing Systems → Warang Citi (84)
- Computing & UI → Warning & Hazard Signs (6)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Symbols → Warning symbols (13)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Travel & places → Water transportation (9)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Travel & places → Weather (47)
- Science & Measurement → Weather & Celestial Symbols (73)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Smileys & emotion → With glasses (3)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Smileys & emotion → With hands (7)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Smileys & emotion → With hats (3)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Smileys & emotion → With tongue (6)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Objects → Writing (7)
- Writing Systems (164,146)
- Writing Systems → Yezidi (47)
- Writing Systems → Yi (1,220)
- Writing Systems → Zanabazar Square (72)
- Pictographs & Emoji → Symbols → Zodiac signs (13)
- Religion & Cultural Symbols → Zodiac Signs (13)
Inventory: 172,873 non-private-use records plus 137,468 private-use slots. Topic totals overlap. Private-use meanings remain unspecified; Unicode and dictionary annotations are shown with their sources in Inspect.