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CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A

U+3400 – U+4DB5   (13312–19893)

The CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A range was introduced with version 3.0 of the Unicode Standard, and provides additions to the CJK Unified Ideographs range, including characters for the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set-2001. Further additions were introduced with version 3.1 in the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B range, with version 5.2.0. in the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C range and with version 6.0.0 in the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D range.

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 AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni (few), AR PL ZenKai Uni (few), BabelStone Han (few), Code2000, HAN NOM A, HanaMin Regular, Kozuka Mincho Pro Acro, Ming(for ISO10646), MingLiU, MingLiU_HKSCS, MSung Std Acro, New Gulim, NSimSun-18030, PMingLiU, SimSun-18030, STSong Std Acro, Sun-ExtA and YOzFontN; and in the Macintosh OS X Unicode fonts Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro, Hiragino Mincho Pro, MS Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PGothic, MS PMincho, PMingLiU, SimSun, STFangsong, STHeiti, STKaiti and STSong.

To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, 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/U3400.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 © 1999–2010 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 7th October 1999   Last updated 7th November 2010