[unicode] What's the complete range for Chinese characters in Unicode?

U+4E00..U+9FFF is part of the complete set, but not all

Unicode currently has 74605 CJK characters. CJK characters not only includes characters used by Chinese, but also Japanese Kanji, Korean Hanja, and Vietnamese Chu Nom. Some CJK characters are not Chinese characters.

1) 20941 characters from the CJK Unified Ideographs block.

Code points U+4E00 to U+9FCC.

1. U+4E00 - U+62FF
2. U+6300 - U+77FF
3. U+7800 - U+8CFF
4. U+8D00 - U+9FCC

2) 6582 characters from the CJKUI Ext A block.

Code points U+3400 to U+4DB5. Unicode 3.0 (1999).

3) 42711 characters from the CJKUI Ext B block.

Code points U+20000 to U+2A6D6. Unicode 3.1 (2001).

1. U+20000 - U+215FF
2. U+21600 - U+230FF
3. U+23100 - U+245FF
4. U+24600 - U+260FF
5. U+26100 - U+275FF
6. U+27600 - U+290FF
7. U+29100 - U+2A6DF

3) 4149 characters from the CJKUI Ext C block.

Code points U+2A700 to U+2B734. Unicode 5.2 (2009).

4) 222 characters from the CJKUI Ext D block.

Code points U+2B740 to U+2B81D. Unicode 6.0 (2010).

5) CJKUI Ext E block.

Coming soon

If the above is not spaghetti enough, take a look at known issues. Have fun =)

May be you would find a complete list through the CJK Unicode FAQ (which does include "Chinese, Japanese, and Korean" characters)

The "East Asian Script" document does mention:

Blocks Containing Han Ideographs

Han ideographic characters are found in five main blocks of the Unicode Standard, as shown in Table 12-2

Table 12-2. Blocks Containing Han Ideographs

Block                                   Range       Comment
CJK Unified Ideographs                  4E00-9FFF   Common
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A      3400-4DBF   Rare
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B      20000-2A6DF Rare, historic
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C      2A700–2B73F Rare, historic
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D      2B740–2B81F Uncommon, some in current use
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E      2B820–2CEAF Rare, historic
CJK Compatibility Ideographs            F900-FAFF   Duplicates, unifiable variants, corporate characters
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 2F800-2FA1F Unifiable variants

Note: the block ranges can evolve over time: latest is in CJK Unified Ideographs.

See also Wikipedia:

• CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
• CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B
• CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C
• CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D
• CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E
• CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F (Unicode 10)

Unicode version 11.0.0

In Unicode the Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts share a common background, collectively known as CJK characters.

These ranges often contain non-assigned or reserved code points(such as U+2E9A , U+2EF4 - 2EFF),

Chinese characters

bottom  top     reference (also have a look at wiki page)   block name
4E00    9FEF    http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U4E00.pdf CJK Unified Ideographs
3400    4DBF    http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3400.pdf CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
20000   2A6DF   http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U20000.pdf    CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B
2A700   2B73F   http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2A700.pdf    CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C
2B740   2B81F   http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2B740.pdf    CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D
2B820   2CEAF   http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2B820.pdf    CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E
2CEB0   2EBEF   https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2CEB0.pdf   CJK Unified Ideographs Extension F
3007    3007    https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%80%87    in block CJK Symbols and Punctuation
                

• In CJK Unified Ideographs block, I notice many answers use upper bound 9FCC, but U+9FCD(?) is indeed a Chinese char. And all characters in this block are Chinese characters (also used in Japanese or Korean etc.).
• Most of characters in CJK Unified Ideographs Ext (Except Ext F, only 17% in Ext F are Chinese characters), are traditional Chinese characters, which are rarely used in China.
• ? is the Chinese character form of zero and still in use today

Therefore the range is

[0x3007,0x3007],[0x3400,0x4DBF],[0x4E00,0x9FEF],[0x20000,0x2EBFF]

CJK characters but never used in Chinese

They are Common Han used only for compatibility.

It is almost impossible to see them appear in any Chinese books, articles, writings etc.

All characters here have one corresponding glyph-identical Chinese character, such as ?(U+F90A) and ?(U+91D1), they are identical glyphs.

 F900    FAFF   https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UF900.pdf  CJK Compatibility Ideographs
2F800   2FA1F   https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2F800.pdf CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement

CJK related symbols

2E80    2EFF    http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2E80.pdf CJK Radicals Supplement
            
2F00    2FDF    http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2F00.pdf Kangxi Radicals 
2FF0    2FFF    https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2FF0.pdf    Ideographic Description Character
3000    303F    https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3000.pdf    CJK Symbols and Punctuation
3100    312f    https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3100.pdf    Bopomofo
31A0    31BF    https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U31A0.pdf    Bopomofo Extended
31C0    31EF    http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U31C0.pdf CJK Strokes
3200    32FF    https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3200.pdf    Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
3300    33FF    https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U3300.pdf    CJK Compatibility
FE30    FE4F    https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFE30.pdf    CJK Compatibility Forms
FF00    FFEF    https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFF00.pdf    Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
1F200   1F2FF   https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F200.pdf   Enclosed Ideographic Supplement

• some blocks such as Hangul Compatibility Jamo are excluded because of no relation to Chinese.
• Kangxi Radicals is not Chinese characters, they are graphical components of Chinese characters, used specially to express radicals, .e.g. ?(U+2F3B) and ?(U+5F73), ?(U+2EDC) and ? (U+98DE)

Other common punctuation appearing in Chinese

This is a wide range, some punctuation may be never used, some punctuations such as ……”“ are used so much in Chinese.

0000    007F    https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf    C0 Controls and Basic Latin 
2000    206F    https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf    General Punctuation
……

There are also many Chinese-related symbols, such as Yijing Hexagram Symbols or Kanbun, but it's off-topic anyway. I write non-chinese-characters in CJK to have a better explanation of what Chinese characters are. And the ranges above already cover almost all the characters which appear in Chinese writing except math and other specialty notation.

Supplementary

CJK Symbols and Punctuation

 ???????<>«»??????????????[]?????????????????????????????????? ? ?

Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Refer

1. https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%89%E5%AD%97 (in chinese language, notice the right side bar)
2. https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E6%97%A5%E9%9F%93%E7%9B%B8%E5%AE%B9%E8%A1%A8%E6%84%8F%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97 (notice the bottom table)
3. http://www.unicode.org

The exact ranges for Chinese characters (except the extensions) are [\u2E80-\u2FD5\u3190-\u319f\u3400-\u4DBF\u4E00-\u9FCC\uF900-\uFAAD].

1. [\u2e80-\u2fd5]

CJK Radicals Supplement is a Unicode block containing alternative, often positional, forms of the Kangxi radicals. They are used headers in dictionary indices and other CJK ideograph collections organized by radical-stroke.

2. [\u3190-\u319f]

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

3. [\u3400-\u4DBF]

CJK Unified Ideographs Extension-A is a Unicode block containing rare Han ideographs.

4. [\u4E00-\u9FCC]

CJK Unified Ideographs is a Unicode block containing the most common CJK ideographs used in modern Chinese and Japanese.

5. [\uF900-\uFAAD]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs is a Unicode block created to contain Han characters that were encoded in multiple locations in other established character encodings, in addition to their CJK Unified Ideographs assignments, in order to retain round-trip compatibility between Unicode and those encodings.

For the details please refer to here, and the extensions are provided in other answers.

The Unicode code blocks that the others answers gave certainly cover most of the Chinese Unicode characters, but check out some of these other code blocks, too.

CJK_UNIFIED_IDEOGRAPHS
CJK_UNIFIED_IDEOGRAPHS_EXTENSION_A
CJK_UNIFIED_IDEOGRAPHS_EXTENSION_B
CJK_UNIFIED_IDEOGRAPHS_EXTENSION_C
CJK_UNIFIED_IDEOGRAPHS_EXTENSION_D
CJK_UNIFIED_IDEOGRAPHS_EXTENSION_E
CJK_COMPATIBILITY
CJK_COMPATIBILITY_FORMS
CJK_COMPATIBILITY_IDEOGRAPHS
CJK_COMPATIBILITY_IDEOGRAPHS_SUPPLEMENT
CJK_RADICALS_SUPPLEMENT
CJK_STROKES
CJK_SYMBOLS_AND_PUNCTUATION
ENCLOSED_CJK_LETTERS_AND_MONTHS
ENCLOSED_IDEOGRAPHIC_SUPPLEMENT
KANGXI_RADICALS
IDEOGRAPHIC_DESCRIPTION_CHARACTERS

See my fuller discussion here. And this site is convenient for browsing Unicode.

To summarize, it sounds like these are them:

var blocks = [
  [0x3400, 0x4DB5],
  [0x4E00, 0x62FF],
  [0x6300, 0x77FF],
  [0x7800, 0x8CFF],
  [0x8D00, 0x9FCC],
  [0x2e80, 0x2fd5],
  [0x3190, 0x319f],
  [0x3400, 0x4DBF],
  [0x4E00, 0x9FCC],
  [0xF900, 0xFAAD],
  [0x20000, 0x215FF],
  [0x21600, 0x230FF],
  [0x23100, 0x245FF],
  [0x24600, 0x260FF],
  [0x26100, 0x275FF],
  [0x27600, 0x290FF],
  [0x29100, 0x2A6DF],
  [0x2A700, 0x2B734],
  [0x2B740, 0x2B81D]
]