Common Unicode Characters
The Common script designates punctuation marks, mathematical symbols, digits, and typographical glyphs used across global writing systems rather than belonging to any single script.
Other Scripts:
Script vs. Block Distinction: In the Unicode Standard, a Script identifies a functional writing system and frequently spans multiple distinct blocks (e.g. Common characters appear across 95 blocks). Conversely, a Block is merely a contiguous geometric range of code points that may contain characters belonging to different scripts.
Unicode Block Distribution
Characters belonging to the Common script are distributed across 95 distinct Unicode blocks.
Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
997 chars
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
768 chars
Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement
695 chars
Mathematical Operators
256 chars
Miscellaneous Technical
256 chars
Miscellaneous Symbols
256 chars
Supplemental Mathematical Operators
256 chars
Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
256 chars
Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
254 chars
Symbols for Legacy Computing
250 chars
Byzantine Musical Symbols
246 chars
Musical Symbols
232 chars
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
201 chars
Dingbats
192 chars
Supplemental Arrows-C
171 chars
CJK Compatibility
168 chars
Enclosed Alphanumerics
160 chars
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
146 chars
Box Drawing
128 chars
Supplemental Arrows-B
128 chars
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
128 chars
Alchemical Symbols
128 chars
Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A
128 chars
Transport and Map Symbols
120 chars
Geometric Shapes Extended
120 chars
Znamenny Musical Notation
116 chars
Arrows
112 chars
General Punctuation
109 chars
Chess Symbols
102 chars
Domino Tiles
100 chars
Supplemental Punctuation
98 chars
Tags
97 chars
Geometric Shapes
96 chars
Tai Xuan Jing Symbols
87 chars
Playing Cards
82 chars
Emoticons
80 chars
Basic Latin
75 chars
Letterlike Symbols
75 chars
Indic Siyaq Numbers
68 chars
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
66 chars
Latin-1 Supplement
64 chars
Spacing Modifier Letters
64 chars
Yijing Hexagram Symbols
64 chars
Enclosed Ideographic Supplement
63 chars
Ottoman Siyaq Numbers
61 chars
Aegean Numbers
57 chars
Miscellaneous Symbols Supplement
53 chars
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A
48 chars
Musical Symbols Supplement
48 chars
Ornamental Dingbats
48 chars
Phaistos Disc
45 chars
Mahjong Tiles
44 chars
CJK Symbols and Punctuation
43 chars
Control Pictures
42 chars
CJK Strokes
39 chars
Currency Symbols
37 chars
Block Elements
32 chars
Modifier Tone Letters
32 chars
CJK Compatibility Forms
32 chars
Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows Extended
29 chars
Superscripts and Subscripts
28 chars
Coptic Epact Numbers
27 chars
Small Form Variants
26 chars
Counting Rod Numerals
25 chars
Kaktovik Numerals
20 chars
Mayan Numerals
20 chars
Number Forms
19 chars
Vedic Extensions
16 chars
Supplemental Arrows-A
16 chars
Ideographic Description Characters
16 chars
Kanbun
16 chars
Ancient Symbols
13 chars
Optical Character Recognition
11 chars
Common Indic Number Forms
10 chars
Vertical Forms
10 chars
Arabic
6 chars
Latin Extended-D
5 chars
Specials
5 chars
Greek and Coptic
4 chars
Tibetan
4 chars
Shorthand Format Controls
4 chars
Runic
3 chars
Mongolian
3 chars
Katakana
3 chars
Latin Extended-E
3 chars
Devanagari
2 chars
Hanunoo
2 chars
Hiragana
2 chars
Arabic Presentation Forms-A
2 chars
Arabic Extended-A
1 chars
Thai
1 chars
Georgian
1 chars
Kayah Li
1 chars
Javanese
1 chars
Arabic Presentation Forms-B
1 chars
General Category Breakdown
Typological distribution of Common characters across formal Unicode general categories.
Unicode Version Additions
Timeline of when characters in the Common script were standardized in Unicode.
v1.1
1,952 characters
v2.0
1 characters
v2.1
2 characters
v3.0
92 characters
v3.1
1,531 characters
v3.2
779 characters
v4.0
272 characters
v4.1
146 characters
v5.0
55 characters
v5.1
327 characters
v5.2
218 characters
v6.0
992 characters
v6.1
34 characters
v6.2
1 characters
v6.3
4 characters
v7.0
710 characters
v8.0
60 characters
v9.0
100 characters
v10.0
85 characters
v11.0
228 characters
v12.0
211 characters
v12.1
1 characters
v13.0
283 characters
v14.0
167 characters
v15.0
49 characters
v15.1
5 characters
v16.0
747 characters
v17.0
70 characters
v18.0
153 characters