Kanbun (Unicode block)
# Kanbun (Unicode block)

Kanbun is a Unicode block containing annotation characters used in Japanese copies (kanbun) of Classical Chinese texts, to indicate reading order.

Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was CJK Miscellaneous, and its code point range was defined differently, including the then-unallocated space now occupied by Bopomofo Extended, CJK Strokes and Katakana Phonetic Extensions.

Kanbun Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :

| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| U+319x | ㆐ | ㆑ | ㆒ | ㆓ | ㆔ | ㆕ | ㆖ | ㆗ | ㆘ | ㆙ | ㆚ | ㆛ | ㆜ | ㆝ | ㆞ | ㆟ |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 15.0 |||||||||||||||||

## History

The following Unicode-related document records the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Kanbun block:

| Version | Final code points | Count | UTC ID | Document |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1.0.0 | U+3190..319F | 16 | UTC/1991-048B | Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "Kaeriten from U+3190 to U+319f", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names |||||
