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CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D

U+2B740 – U+2B81F   (177984–178207)

The CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D range was introduced with version 6.0.0 of the Unicode Standard and provides 222 new ideographs, in addition to those in the CJK Unified Ideographs, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B and CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C ranges. The CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D range is located in Plane 2 (the Supplementary Ideographic Plane). Windows XP and later versions support supplementary characters by default. In Windows 2000, you need to enable support for supplementary characters. These characters cannot easily be displayed in earlier versions of Windows.

The characters that appear in the “Character” columns of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts BabelStone Han and HanaMin Regular.

To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or Apple’s Character Palette.

You can try out your browser and fonts with simplified Chinese text at http://www.microsoft.com/China/, with traditional Chinese text at http://www.microsoft.com/Taiwan/ and http://www.apple.com.tw/, with Japanese text at http://www.microsoft.com/japan/ and http://www.apple.co.jp/, and with Korean text at http://www.microsoft.com/Korea/ and http://www.applecomputer.co.kr/.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2B740.pdf.

Simplified Chinese

The following table has the lang="zh-Hans" attribute, which should cause your Web browser to use a simplified Chinese font.

Traditional Chinese

The following table has the lang="zh-Hant" attribute, which should cause your Web browser to use a traditional Chinese font.

Japanese

The following table has the lang="ja" attribute, which should cause your Web browser to use a Japanese font.

Korean

The following table has the lang="ko" attribute, which should cause your Web browser to use a Korean font.

Copyright © 2010 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 6.0.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2010 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in October 2010.

Created 12th December 2010   Last updated 12th December 2010