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The Japanese variant takes all of its kanji and nearly all of its kana from the public-domain Izumi Gothic, having used jiskan16 until v12.1.03 and changed for the sake of readability.

Variant size table

Variants Nominal size Han ink box Max ink extents
unifont-16-0-04-16px 16 px 15×16 16×16
unifont_jp-16-0-04-16px 16 px 15×15 16×16
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Metrics

Nominal size 16 px
Han ink box 15×16
Cap height 10
x-height 8
Max ink extents 16×16
Ascent / Descent 14 / 2
Font bounding box 32, 16, -16, -2
Spacing Monospaced
Advance width distribution 0px×1313 8px×6694 16px×50870
Nominal box 16×16 Han ink (median) 15×16 Max ink 16×16

Character coverage

Overview

Encoded characters 57,480 / 297,264 19.34%
BMP 57,038 / 62,089 91.86%
SMP 1 / 28,829 0.00%
SIP 1,777 / 61,513 2.89%
TIP 61 / 13,429 0.45%
Compatibility Ideographs * 462 / 1002 46.11%

General & international

International Ideographs Core (IICore) 9,810 / 9,810 100% ✓ Complete
Unihan Core 2020 19,171 / 20,720 92.52%
Windows Glyph List 4 650 / 650 100% ✓ Complete
Basic Latin 95 / 95 100% ✓ Complete
Latin-1 Supplement 96 / 96 100% ✓ Complete
Latin Extended-A 128 / 128 100% ✓ Complete
Latin Extended-B 208 / 208 100% ✓ Complete
Cyrillic Everyday Characters 97 / 97 100% ✓ Complete
Greek Everyday Characters 72 / 72 100% ✓ Complete
Arabic Everyday Characters 92 / 92 100% ✓ Complete
Thai Everyday Characters 87 / 87 100% ✓ Complete
Vietnamese Latin 186 / 186 100% ✓ Complete
IBM Code Page 437 255 / 255 100% ✓ Complete
Box Drawing 128 / 128 100% ✓ Complete
Block Elements 32 / 32 100% ✓ Complete
Powerline Symbols 0 / 41 0.00%
Braille Patterns 256 / 256 100% ✓ Complete

CJK character map

CJK unified ideographs Unicode 17 29,432 / 101,996
Selected CJK, without duplicates 26,416 / 26,72798.8%
CJK character map Schematic overlaps; areas are not proportional to character counts. Taiwan · Common Traditional Han: 11,151 / 11,151; Mainland China · General Simplified Han: 8,105 / 8,105; Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 1: 2,965 / 2,965; Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han: 4,620 / 4,620. Simp Trad Shared: 4,899 / 4,899. Taiwan · Common Traditional Han 11,151 / 11,151 100% Mainland China · General Simplified Han 8,105 / 8,105 100% Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han Simp Trad Shared 4,899 / 4,899 Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 1 2,965 / 2,965 Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han 4,620 / 4,620 100%
Taiwan · Common Traditional Han11,151 / 11,151 100%
Mainland China · General Simplified Han8,105 / 8,105 100%
Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 12,965 / 2,965 100%
Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han4,620 / 4,620 100%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han4,899 / 4,899
Japanese kana 268 / 579 46.3% Hiragana 86 / 86
Katakana 90 / 90
Hangul syllables 11,172 / 11,172 100% KS X 1001 syllables 2,350 / 2,350
Hangul Jamo, with extensions 451 / 451
Bopomofo 75 / 75 100%
Schematic overlaps; areas are not proportional to character counts.
Explore the counts & definitions

The selected CJK total combines the four Han tables, Japanese kana, Hangul syllables and Bopomofo, counting each code point once. Jamo and compatibility Han are listed separately. Kana include historical and extended characters, so this total is not a list of everyday characters.

“Simp Trad Shared” counts Unicode code points shared by the Simplified and Traditional Han reference sets. Shared code points can still have different regional glyph shapes, for example through OpenType locl; coverage does not imply identical glyphs.

Unicode 17. Counts use exact code points, with no variant-form or compatibility normalization. The Han map includes the 12 unified ideographs in the compatibility block; other compatibility ideographs are listed separately. “Only” means absent from the other three reference sets.

Taiwan: the 4,808 common and 6,343 less-common character tables. Mainland China: the 8,105 standard characters in three levels. Japan: the 2,965 JIS X 0208 Level 1 kanji. Korea: the unified Han subset of KS X 1001. Kana, Jamo and Bopomofo use assigned Unicode block characters, including extensions; halfwidth kana are included separately in the kana total.

Shared & unique characters
Shared & unique charactersCovered / total
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han 4,899 / 4,899100%
Japanese Kanji ∩ Traditional Han 2,495 / 2,495100%
Japanese Kanji ∩ Simplified Han 1,904 / 1,904100%
Korean Han ∩ Traditional Han 4,294 / 4,294100%
Korean Han ∩ Simplified Han 2,799 / 2,799100%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Japanese Kanji 1,771 / 1,771100%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Korean Han 2,733 / 2,733100%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Japanese Kanji ∩ Korean Han 1,698 / 1,698100%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han 14,357 / 14,357100%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Japanese Kanji 14,694 / 14,694100%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Korean Han 14,617 / 14,617100%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Japanese Kanji ∪ Korean Han 14,901 / 14,901100%
Traditional Han only 4,638 / 4,638100%
Simplified Han only 3,028 / 3,028100%
Japanese Kanji only 284 / 284100%
Korean Han only 207 / 207100%

Reference tables: Unicode 17 · FontPixel

CJK character totals

CJK unified ideographs 29,432 / 101,996 28.86%
Selected CJK, without duplicates 26,416 / 26,727 98.84%

Simplified Chinese · National standards

GB/T 2312 Hanzi 6,763 / 6,763 100% ✓ Complete
GB/T 2312 Level 1 Hanzi 3,755 / 3,755 100% ✓ Complete
GB/T 2312 Level 2 Hanzi 3,008 / 3,008 100% ✓ Complete
GBK Hanzi 20,923 / 20,923 100% ✓ Complete
GB/T 12345 Traditional Hanzi 6,866 / 6,866 100% ✓ Complete
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 3 28,950 / 88,115 32.85%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 2 27,780 / 27,780 100% ✓ Complete
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 1 27,584 / 27,584 100% ✓ Complete

Simplified Chinese · Language standards

Table of General Standard Chinese Characters 8,105 / 8,105 100% ✓ Complete
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 1 3,500 / 3,500 100% ✓ Complete
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 2 3,000 / 3,000 100% ✓ Complete
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 3 1,605 / 1,605 100% ✓ Complete
List of Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese 3,500 / 3,500 100% ✓ Complete
Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese (2500) 2,500 / 2,500 100% ✓ Complete
Less Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese (1000) 1,000 / 1,000 100% ✓ Complete
List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese 7,000 / 7,000 100% ✓ Complete
Compulsory Education Chinese Character List 3,500 / 3,500 100% ✓ Complete
Standard Glyph Forms for Ancient Book Printing 13,386 / 14,250 93.94%
Kangxi Radicals 214 / 214 100% ✓ Complete
CJK Radicals Supplement 115 / 115 100% ✓ Complete
Hanyi Simplified & Traditional Set 9,169 / 9,169 100% ✓ Complete
FounderType Simplified & Traditional Set 9,664 / 9,664 100% ✓ Complete

Traditional Chinese · Taiwan

Taiwan common and less-common Han (total) 11,151 / 11,151 100% ✓ Complete
Standard Forms of Common National Characters 4,808 / 4,808 100% ✓ Complete
Standard Forms of Less-Common National Characters 6,343 / 6,343 100% ✓ Complete
Big5 All Hanzi 13,053 / 13,053 100% ✓ Complete
Big5 Frequently Used Hanzi 5,401 / 5,401 100% ✓ Complete
Big5 Less Frequently Used Hanzi 7,652 / 7,652 100% ✓ Complete
Bopomofo 75 / 75 100% ✓ Complete

Traditional Chinese · Hong Kong

List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters 4,762 / 4,762 100% ✓ Complete
Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set Hanzi 3,055 / 4,603 66.37%
Hong Kong Supplementary Characters in Common Use 1,102 / 1,102 100% ✓ Complete

Japanese

JIS X 0208 Non-Kanji 524 / 524 100% ✓ Complete
JIS X 0208 Level 1 Kanji 2,965 / 2,965 100% ✓ Complete
JIS X 0208 Level 2 Kanji 3,390 / 3,390 100% ✓ Complete
JIS X 0213 Level 3 Kanji 1,260 / 1,260 100% ✓ Complete
JIS X 0213 Level 4 Kanji 2,397 / 2,397 100% ✓ Complete
Joyo Kanji 2,136 / 2,136 100% ✓ Complete
Kyoiku Kanji 1,026 / 1,026 100% ✓ Complete
Jinmeiyo Kanji 864 / 864 100% ✓ Complete
Japanese kana 268 / 579 46.29%
Hiragana 86 / 86 100% ✓ Complete
Katakana 90 / 90 100% ✓ Complete
Additional kana characters 13 / 13 100% ✓ Complete
Kana extensions 16 / 327 4.89%
Halfwidth Katakana 63 / 63 100% ✓ Complete
JIS X 0201 158 / 158 100% ✓ Complete

Korean

Hangul Syllables (All Modern) 11,172 / 11,172 100% ✓ Complete
KS X 1001 Hangul Syllables 2,350 / 2,350 100% ✓ Complete
KS X 1001 Han (total) 4,888 / 4,888 100% ✓ Complete
KS X 1001 unified Han 4,620 / 4,620 100% ✓ Complete
KS X 1001 compatibility Han 268 / 268 100% ✓ Complete
KS X 1001 Symbols 987 / 987 100% ✓ Complete
Hangul Jamo, with extensions 451 / 451 100% ✓ Complete
Hangul Compatibility Jamo 94 / 94 100% ✓ Complete
Hangul Jamo · base block 256 / 256 100% ✓ Complete
Hangul Jamo extensions A and B 101 / 101 100% ✓ Complete
Unicode blocks(169)
Basic Latin 96 / 128 75.00%
Latin-1 Supplement 128 / 128 100%
Latin Extended-A 128 / 128 100%
Latin Extended-B 208 / 208 100%
IPA Extensions 96 / 96 100%
Spacing Modifier Letters 80 / 80 100%
Combining Diacritical Marks 112 / 112 100%
Greek and Coptic 144 / 134 107.46%
Cyrillic 256 / 256 100%
Cyrillic Supplement 48 / 48 100%
Armenian 96 / 91 105.49%
Hebrew 112 / 88 127.27%
Arabic 256 / 256 100%
Syriac 80 / 77 103.90%
Arabic Supplement 48 / 48 100%
Thaana 64 / 50 128.00%
NKo 64 / 62 103.23%
Samaritan 64 / 61 104.92%
Mandaic 32 / 28 114.29%
Syriac Supplement 16 / 11 145.45%
Arabic Extended-B 48 / 43 111.63%
Arabic Extended-A 96 / 96 100%
Devanagari 128 / 128 100%
Bengali 128 / 94 136.17%
Gurmukhi 128 / 77 166.23%
Gujarati 128 / 90 142.22%
Oriya 128 / 91 140.66%
Tamil 128 / 69 185.51%
Telugu 128 / 101 126.73%
Kannada 128 / 92 139.13%
Malayalam 128 / 118 108.47%
Sinhala 128 / 88 145.45%
Thai 128 / 87 147.13%
Lao 128 / 80 160.00%
Tibetan 256 / 211 121.33%
Myanmar 160 / 160 100%
Georgian 96 / 86 111.63%
Hangul Jamo 256 / 256 100%
Ethiopic 384 / 356 107.87%
Ethiopic Supplement 32 / 26 123.08%
Cherokee 96 / 92 104.35%
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics 640 / 640 100%
Ogham 32 / 29 110.34%
Runic 96 / 89 107.87%
Tagalog 32 / 23 139.13%
Hanunoo 32 / 23 139.13%
Buhid 32 / 20 160.00%
Tagbanwa 32 / 18 177.78%
Khmer 128 / 114 112.28%
Mongolian 176 / 158 111.39%
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended 80 / 70 114.29%
Limbu 80 / 67 119.40%
Tai Le 48 / 35 137.14%
New Tai Lue 96 / 83 115.66%
Khmer Symbols 32 / 32 100%
Buginese 32 / 30 106.67%
Tai Tham 144 / 127 113.39%
Combining Diacritical Marks Extended 80 / 58 137.93%
Balinese 128 / 127 100.79%
Sundanese 64 / 64 100%
Batak 64 / 56 114.29%
Lepcha 80 / 74 108.11%
Ol Chiki 48 / 48 100%
Cyrillic Extended-C 16 / 11 145.45%
Georgian Extended 48 / 46 104.35%
Sundanese Supplement 16 / 8 200.00%
Vedic Extensions 48 / 43 111.63%
Phonetic Extensions 128 / 128 100%
Phonetic Extensions Supplement 64 / 64 100%
Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement 64 / 64 100%
Latin Extended Additional 256 / 256 100%
Greek Extended 256 / 230 111.30%
General Punctuation 112 / 111 100.90%
Superscripts and Subscripts 48 / 42 114.29%
Currency Symbols 48 / 34 141.18%
Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols 48 / 33 145.45%
Letterlike Symbols 80 / 80 100%
Number Forms 64 / 60 106.67%
Arrows 112 / 112 100%
Mathematical Operators 256 / 256 100%
Miscellaneous Technical 256 / 256 100%
Control Pictures 64 / 42 152.38%
Optical Character Recognition 32 / 11 290.91%
Enclosed Alphanumerics 160 / 160 100%
Box Drawing 128 / 128 100%
Block Elements 32 / 32 100%
Geometric Shapes 96 / 96 100%
Miscellaneous Symbols 256 / 256 100%
Dingbats 192 / 192 100%
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A 48 / 48 100%
Supplemental Arrows-A 16 / 16 100%
Braille Patterns 256 / 256 100%
Supplemental Arrows-B 128 / 128 100%
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B 128 / 128 100%
Supplemental Mathematical Operators 256 / 256 100%
Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows 256 / 254 100.79%
Glagolitic 96 / 96 100%
Latin Extended-C 32 / 32 100%
Coptic 128 / 123 104.07%
Georgian Supplement 48 / 38 126.32%
Tifinagh 80 / 59 135.59%
Ethiopic Extended 96 / 79 121.52%
Cyrillic Extended-A 32 / 32 100%
Supplemental Punctuation 128 / 94 136.17%
CJK Radicals Supplement 128 / 115 111.30%
Kangxi Radicals 224 / 214 104.67%
Ideographic Description Characters 16 / 16 100%
CJK Symbols and Punctuation 64 / 64 100%
Hiragana 96 / 93 103.23%
Katakana 96 / 96 100%
Bopomofo 48 / 43 111.63%
Hangul Compatibility Jamo 96 / 94 102.13%
Kanbun 16 / 16 100%
Bopomofo Extended 32 / 32 100%
CJK Strokes 48 / 39 123.08%
Katakana Phonetic Extensions 16 / 16 100%
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months 256 / 255 100.39%
CJK Compatibility 256 / 256 100%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A 6,592 / 6,592 100%
Yijing Hexagram Symbols 64 / 64 100%
CJK Unified Ideographs 20,992 / 20,992 100%
Yi Syllables 1,168 / 1,165 100.26%
Yi Radicals 64 / 55 116.36%
Lisu 48 / 48 100%
Vai 320 / 300 106.67%
Cyrillic Extended-B 96 / 96 100%
Bamum 96 / 88 109.09%
Modifier Tone Letters 32 / 32 100%
Latin Extended-D 224 / 204 109.80%
Syloti Nagri 48 / 45 106.67%
Common Indic Number Forms 16 / 10 160.00%
Phags-pa 64 / 56 114.29%
Saurashtra 96 / 82 117.07%
Devanagari Extended 32 / 32 100%
Kayah Li 48 / 48 100%
Rejang 48 / 37 129.73%
Hangul Jamo Extended-A 32 / 29 110.34%
Javanese 96 / 91 105.49%
Myanmar Extended-B 32 / 31 103.23%
Cham 96 / 83 115.66%
Myanmar Extended-A 32 / 32 100%
Tai Viet 96 / 72 133.33%
Meetei Mayek Extensions 32 / 23 139.13%
Ethiopic Extended-A 48 / 32 150.00%
Latin Extended-E 64 / 60 106.67%
Cherokee Supplement 80 / 80 100%
Meetei Mayek 64 / 56 114.29%
Hangul Syllables 11,184 / 11,172 100.11%
Hangul Jamo Extended-B 80 / 72 111.11%
CJK Compatibility Ideographs 512 / 472 108.47%
Alphabetic Presentation Forms 80 / 57 140.35%
Arabic Presentation Forms-A 688 / 656 104.88%
Vertical Forms 16 / 10 160.00%
Combining Half Marks 16 / 16 100%
CJK Compatibility Forms 32 / 32 100%
Small Form Variants 32 / 26 123.08%
Arabic Presentation Forms-B 144 / 140 102.86%
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms 240 / 225 106.67%
Specials 14 / 5 280.00%
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement 1 / 200 0.50%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B 665 / 42,720 1.56%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C 84 / 4,160 2.02%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D 222 / 222 100%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E 149 / 5,774 2.58%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F 33 / 7,473 0.44%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I 622 / 622 100%
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 2 / 542 0.37%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G 43 / 4,939 0.87%
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension H 18 / 4,192 0.43%

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unifont-16-0-04-16px BDF 1.30 MB PCF 1.32 MB
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Bitmap TTF gnu-unifont-ja.ttf 2.30 MB
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