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CJK Symbols and Punctuation

U+3000 – U+303F   (12288–12351)

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 ALPHABETUM Unicode, AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni, AR PL ZenKai Uni, Arial Unicode MS, BabelStone Han, Baekmuk Batang, Baekmuk Dotum, Baekmuk Gulim, Baekmuk Headline, Batang, BatangChe, Cardo, Chrysanthi Unicode, CN-Arial, CN-Times, Code2000, Daicing Bible, Daicing Harmony, Daicing Round, Daicing White, Daicing Xiaokai, Free Idg Serif, Gulim Che, Gungsuh, GungsuhChe, HAN NOM A, HanaMin Regular, HY Shin Myeongjo Std Acro, Jomolhari, Kochi Gothic, Kochi Mincho, Kozuka Mincho Pro Acro, Malgun Gothic, Microsoft Himalaya, Microsoft Yi Baiti, MingLiU, MingLiU_HKSCS, Mongolian Baiti, MS Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PGothic, MS PMincho, MS UI Gothic, MSung Std Acro, New Gulim, NSimSun, NSimSun-18030, Nuosu SIL, PMingLiU, Roman Unicode, Sazanami Gothic, Sazanami Mincho, SimHei, SimSun, SimSun-18030, STSong Std Acro, Summersby, Sun-ExtA, Symbola, Tibetan Machine Uni, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, TSC FMing S TT, TSC JSong S TT, UnBatang, WenQuanYi Zen Hei, WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono, XTashi and YOzFontN; 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, Pilgiche, 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, #PilGi, PMingLiU, Seoul, SimSun, Song, STFangsong, STHeiti, STKaiti, STSong, #TaeGraphic 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.

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/U3000.pdf.

Copyright © 1999–2010 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 3.2 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2002 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in April 2002.

Created 3rd February 1999   Last updated 7th November 2010