2.1. Final Zone Allocations

ISO/IEC 10646-1 is organized into zones, which were reallocated in the published version. These zone reallocations do not affect any allocated Unicode 1.0 characters, but do affect the Private Use Area.

Unicode Allocation

Range

Cells

Name/Contents

U+0000 ® U+4DFF

19,968

A-ZONE Alphabets, syllabaries, symbols (the 65 control codes are excluded)

U+4E00 ® U+9FFF

20,992

I-ZONE Ideographs

U+A000 ® U+DFFF

16,384

O-ZONE Reserved for future assignment

U+E000 ® U+FFFF

8,192

R-ZONE Restricted use (FFFE and FFFF are excluded)


R-ZONE Allocation

Range

Cells

Name/Contents

U+E000 ® U+F8FF

6,400

Private Use Area (Corporate Use Zone starts at F8FF allocating downwards; End User Zone starts at E000 allocating upwards)

U+F900 ® U+FFEF

1,776

Compatibility Zone (including presentation forms)

U+FFF0 ® U+FFFF

16

Specials (FFFE and FFFF are not character codes, and are excluded)