Unicode
General Category property

Unicode

Section Title: General Category property
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General Category (Unicode Character Property) vte

Value	Category Major, minor	Basic type	Character assigned	Count (as of 12.0)	Remarks

Letter

Lu	Letter, uppercase	Graphic	Character	1,788

Ll	Letter, lowercase	Graphic	Character	2,151

Lt	Letter, titlecase	Graphic	Character	31	Ligatures containing uppercase followed by lowercase letters (e.g., ǅ, ǈ, ǋ, and ǲ)

Lm	Letter, modifier	Graphic	Character	259	a modifier letter

Lo	Letter, other	Graphic	Character	121,414	an ideograph or a letter in a unicase alphabet

Mark

Mn	Mark, nonspacing	Graphic	Character	1,826

Mc	Mark, spacing combining	Graphic	Character	429

Me	Mark, enclosing	Graphic	Character	13

Number

Nd	Number, decimal digit	Graphic	Character	630	All these, and only these, have Numeric Type = De

Nl	Number, letter	Graphic	Character	236	Numerals composed of letters or letterlike symbols (e.g., Roman numerals)

No	Number, other	Graphic	Character	888	E.g., vulgar fractions, superscript and subscript digits

Punctuation

Pc	Punctuation, connector	Graphic	Character	10	Includes "_" underscore

Pd	Punctuation, dash	Graphic	Character	24	Includes several hyphen characters

Ps	Punctuation, open	Graphic	Character	75	Opening bracket characters

Pe	Punctuation, close	Graphic	Character	73	Closing bracket characters

Pi	Punctuation, initial quote	Graphic	Character	12	Opening quotation mark. Does not include the ASCII "neutral" quotation mark. May behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage

Pf	Punctuation, final quote	Graphic	Character	10	Closing quotation mark. May behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage

Po	Punctuation, other	Graphic	Character	588

Symbol

Sm	Symbol, math	Graphic	Character	948	Mathematical symbols (e.g., +, −, =, ×, ÷, √, ∊). Does not include parentheses and brackets, which are in categories Ps and Pe.

Sc	Symbol, currency	Graphic	Character	62	Currency symbols

Sk	Symbol, modifier	Graphic	Character	121

So	Symbol, other	Graphic	Character	6,160

Separator

Zs	Separator, space	Graphic	Character	17	Includes the space, but not TAB, CR, or LF, which are Cc

Zl	Separator, line	Format	Character	1	Only U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR (LSEP)

Zp	Separator, paragraph	Format	Character	1	Only U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR (PSEP)

Other

Cc	Other, control	Control	Character	65 (will never change)	No name,

Cf	Other, format	Format	Character	161	Includes the soft hyphen, joining control characters (zwnj and zwj), control characters to support bi-directional text, and language tag characters

Cs	Other, surrogate	Surrogate	Not (but abstract)	2,048 (will never change)	No name,

Co	Other, private use	Private-use	Not (but abstract)	137,468 total (will never change) (6,400 in BMP, 131,068 in Planes 15–16)	No name,

Cn	Other, not assigned	Noncharacter	Not	66 (will never change)	No name,

Reserved	Not	836,537	No name,

"Table 4-4: General Category" (PDF). The Unicode Standard.

Sentence(s)

As of Unicode 12.0, there are 836,537 reserved code points.

final_sentence: As of Unicode 12.0, there are 836,537 reserved code points.