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CJK Unified Ideographs

U+4E00 – U+9FBB   (19968–40891)

There are far too many of these Chinese, Japanese and Korean ideographs to show in a single HTML document, so only the first and last few are shown. There are more of these ideographs in the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A and CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B ranges. The order follows the traditional KangXi dictionary, with characters with the fewest strokes first.

The characters that appear in the first column 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 AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni, AR PL ZenKai Uni, Arial Unicode MS, Baekmuk Batang, Baekmuk Dotum, Baekmuk Gulim, Batang, BatangChe, Bitstream CyberBit, Bitstream CyberCJK, Chrysanthi Unicode (few), Code2000, Gulim Che, Gulim Old Hangul Jamo, Gungsuh, GungsuhChe, HAN NOM A, HY Shin Myeongjo Std Acro, Kochi Gothic, Kochi Mincho, Kozuka Mincho Pro Acro, Ming(for ISO10646), MingLiU, MingLiU_HKSCS, MS Gothic, MS Hei, MS Mincho, MS PGothic, MS PMincho, MS Song, MS UI Gothic, MSung Std Acro, New Gulim, NSimSun, NSimSun-18030, PMingLiU, Sazanami Gothic, Sazanami Mincho, SimHei, SimSun, SimSun-18030, STSong Std Acro, Sun-ExtA, TSC FMing S TT, TSC JSong S TT and Y.OzFontN; and in the Macintosh OS 9 Unicode fonts AppleGothic, Apple LiGothic, Apple LiSung, AppleMyungjo, Beijing, BiauKai, ChuGothic, Fang Song, Gungseouche, Hei, HeiseiKakuGothic, HeiseiMincho, Kai, Osaka, Osaka-Mono, SaiMincho, Seoul, Song and Taipei; and in the Macintosh OS X Unicode fonts AppleGothic, Apple LiGothic, Apple LiSung, AppleMyungjo, Batang, Beijing, BiauKai, Fang Song, #GothicMedium, Gulim, #GungSeo, Hangang, Hei, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Std, Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro, Hiragino Mincho Pro, Kai, MS Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PGothic, MS PMincho, #MyungjoNeue, Osaka, Osaka-Mono, #PCMyungjo, PMingLiU, Seoul, SimSun, Song, STFangsong, STHeiti, STKaiti, STSong and Taipei.

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

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/.

Users of Internet Explorer 5 for Windows can choose to install updates for viewing Chinese, Japanese and Korean Web pages and to provide an interface and an IME in any of those languages.

Users of Macintosh computers running Mac OS 9 can install Apple Language Kits for Chinese, Japanese and Korean, which include IMEs.

There are too many characters in this range to display in a single HTML file. You can find a document that displays them all at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U4E00.pdf.

Copyright © 1999–2007 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 3.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–1999 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData-Latest.txt on the Unicode ftp site (ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in October 1999.

Created 3rd February 1999   Last updated 14th September 2007

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