# Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation

Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation is a Unicode block containing symbols and punctuation marks used by ideographic scripts such as Tangut and Nüshu.
Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| U+16FEx | 𖿠 | 𖿡 | 𖿢 | 𖿣 | KSS F |
| U+16FFx | 𖿰 | 𖿱 | | | |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points |||||||||||||||||

## History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 9.0 | U+16FE0 | 1 | L2/10-095 | N3797, N3797-A, N3797-B | Final proposal for encoding the Tangut script in the SMP of the UCS, 2010-04-05 |
| 9.0 | U+16FE0 | 1 | L2/10-131 | N3821 | Anderson, Deborah; Cook, Richard (2010-04-16), Comments on Tangut proposal N3797 |
| 9.0 | U+16FE0 | 1 | L2/11-214 | N4033, N4033A, N4033B | West, Andrew (2011-05-22), Report on Tangut Encoding |
| 9.0 | U+16FE0 | 1 | L2/12-313 | N4325 | West, Andrew; et al. (2012-10-02), Proposal to encode the Tangut script in the UCS |
| 9.0 | U+16FE0 | 1 | L2/14-023 | N4522 | West, Andrew; Everson, Michael; Xiaomang, Han; Jia, Changye; Jing, Yongshi; Zaytsev, Viacheslav (2014-01-21), Proposal to encode the Tangut script in the UCS |
| 9.0 | U+16FE0 | 1 | L2/14-100 | | Moore, Lisa (2014-05-13), "Consensus 139-C14", UTC #139 Minutes |
| 9.0 | U+16FE0 | 1 | | N4553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.12b", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA |
| 9.0 | U+16FE0 | 1 | L2/16-129 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2016-05-05), Name change for U+16FE0 |
| 9.0 | U+16FE0 | 1 | L2/16-121 | | Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "Consensus 147-C20", UTC #147 Minutes, Change the name of U+16FE0 from TANGUT REPETITION MARK to TANGUT ITERATION MARK for Unicode 9.0. |
| 10.0 | U+16FE1 | 1 | L2/09-170 | N3635 (pdf, doc) | Ad hoc report on Nüshu, 2009-04-21 |
| 10.0 | U+16FE1 | 1 | L2/09-234 | N3603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.18", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 |
| 10.0 | U+16FE1 | 1 | L2/12-362 | N4341 | Updated Proposal for encoding Nyushu in the SMP, 2012-09-10 |
| 10.0 | U+16FE1 | 1 | L2/12-370 | N4376 | Aalto, Tero (2012-10-24), Nüshu ad hoc report |
| 10.0 | U+16FE1 | 1 | | N4451 | Anderson, Deborah (2013-06-05), Mapping of Nushu characters (from N4376 and N4341) and Additional Comments |
| 10.0 | U+16FE1 | 1 | L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.03f", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63, Rename 1B100 to NUSHU ITERATION MARK and move it to 16FE1 in Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation block |
| 10.0 | U+16FE1 | 1 | L2/16-203 | | Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "B.11.3.2", UTC #148 Minutes |
| 12.0 | U+16FE2..16FE3 | 2 | L2/17-310 | N4847 | West, Andrew; Chan, Eiso (2017-09-07), Proposal to encode two marks for ancient Chinese texts |
| 12.0 | U+16FE2..16FE3 | 2 | L2/17-367 | N4885 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa (2017-09-18), "4. Iteration/Punctuation marks", Comments on WG2 #66 (Sept. 2017) documents |
| 12.0 | U+16FE2..16FE3 | 2 | | N4953 (pdf, doc) | "M66.16h", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23 |
| 12.0 | U+16FE2..16FE3 | 2 | L2/17-362 | | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C11", UTC #153 Minutes |
| 13.0 | U+16FE4 | 1 | L2/18-121R | N4943R | West, Andrew; Zaytsev, Viacheslav; Everson, Michael (2018-05-19), Cluster Formation Model for Khitan Small Script |
| 13.0 | U+16FE4 | 1 | L2/18-210 | N4977 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Constable, Peter; Moore, Lisa; Jeziorek, Marek; Yang, Ben (2018-06-09), "1", Comments on WG2 #67 documents (June 2018) |
| 13.0 | U+16FE4 | 1 | L2/18-213 | N5002 | Anderson, Deborah; Constable, Peter (2018-06-20), Khitan Small Script Ad Hoc Report (London) |
| 13.0 | U+16FE4 | 1 | L2/18-214 | | Silva, Eduardo Marín (2018-06-27), "KHITAN SMALL SCRIPT FILLER", Feedback on: Additional repertoire for ISO/IEC 10646:2017 (5th ed.) beyond Amendment 2 (L2/18-211) |
| 13.0 | U+16FE4 | 1 | L2/18-241 | | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2018-07-20), "9", Recommendations to UTC # 156 July 2018 on Script Proposals |
| 13.0 | U+16FE4 | 1 | L2/18-300 | | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2018-09-14), "9. b.", Recommendations to UTC #157 on Script Proposals |
| 13.0 | U+16FE4 | 1 | L2/18-272 | | Moore, Lisa (2018-10-29), "C.10", UTC #157 Minutes |
| 13.0 | U+16FE4 | 1 | L2/18-183 | | Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), "C.12 Cluster Formation Model for Khitan Small Script", UTC #156 Minutes |
| 13.0 | U+16FE4 | 1 | | N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "9.2.3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 |
| 13.0 | U+16FF0..16FF1 | 2 | L2/17-373R | N4915 | Collins, Lee; Nhàn, Ngô Thanh (2017-11-06), Proposal to Encode Two Vietnamese Alternate Reading Marks |
| 13.0 | U+16FF0..16FF1 | 2 | L2/17-362 | | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C20", UTC #153 Minutes |
| 13.0 | U+16FF0..16FF1 | 2 | L2/18-281 | N5011 | West, Andrew; Knightley, John; Chan, Eiso (2018-08-31), Comments on proposed Vietnamese Reading Marks |
| 13.0 | U+16FF0..16FF1 | 2 | L2/18-318 | N5026 | Collins, Lee; Nhàn, Ngô Thanh (2018-10-20), Response to L2/18-281 (Comments on proposed Vietnamese Reading Marks) |
| 13.0 | U+16FF0..16FF1 | 2 | L2/18-272 | | Moore, Lisa (2018-10-29), "C.6", UTC #157 Minutes |
| 13.0 | U+16FF0..16FF1 | 2 | | N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "9.1.1", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 |
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