What s the complete range for Chinese characters in Unicode

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

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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

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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  https   zh wikipedia org wiki  E6 B1 89 E5 AD 97  in chinese language  notice the right side bar  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  http   www unicode org

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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

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The exact ranges for Chinese characters  except the extensions  are   u2E80- u2FD5 u3190- u319f u3400- u4DBF u4E00- u9FCC uF900- uFAAD         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          u3190- u319f       Kanbun is a Unicode block containing annotation characters used in   Japanese copies of classical Chinese texts  to indicate reading order       u3400- u4DBF       CJK Unified Ideographs Extension-A is a Unicode block containing rare   Han ideographs       u4E00- u9FCC       CJK Unified Ideographs is a Unicode block containing the most common   CJK ideographs used in modern Chinese and Japanese       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

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May be you would find a complete list through the CJK Unicode FAQ  which does include  quot Chinese  Japanese  and Korean quot  characters  The  quot East Asian Script quot  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

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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    U 4E00 - U 62FF  U 6300 - U 77FF U 7800 - U 8CFF 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      U 20000 - U 215FF U 21600 - U 230FF U 23100 - U 245FF U 24600 - U 260FF U 26100 - U 275FF U 27600 - U 290FF 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

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