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General Category (Unicode Character Property)^{[lower-alpha 1]} v t e
Value	Category Major, minor	Basic type^{[lower-alpha 2]}	Character assigned^{[lower-alpha 2]}	Count^{[lower-alpha 3]} (as of 15.1)	Remarks

L, Letter; LC, Cased Letter (Lu, Ll, and Lt only)^{[lower-alpha 4]}
Lu	Letter, uppercase	Graphic	Character	1,831
Ll	Letter, lowercase	Graphic	Character	2,233
Lt	Letter, titlecase	Graphic	Character	31	Ligatures or digraphs containing an uppercase followed by a lowercase part (e.g., ǅ, ǈ, ǋ, and ǲ)
Lm	Letter, modifier	Graphic	Character	397	A modifier letter
Lo	Letter, other	Graphic	Character	132,234	An ideograph or a letter in a unicase alphabet
M, Mark
Mn	Mark, nonspacing	Graphic	Character	1,985
Mc	Mark, spacing combining	Graphic	Character	452
Me	Mark, enclosing	Graphic	Character	13
N, Number
Nd	Number, decimal digit	Graphic	Character	680	All these, and only these, have Numeric Type = De^{[lower-alpha 5]}
Nl	Number, letter	Graphic	Character	236	Numerals composed of letters or letterlike symbols (e.g., Roman numerals)
No	Number, other	Graphic	Character	915	E.g., vulgar fractions, superscript and subscript digits
P, Punctuation
Pc	Punctuation, connector	Graphic	Character	10	Includes spacing underscore characters such as "_", and other spacing tie characters. Unlike other punctuation characters, these may be classified as "word" characters by regular expression libraries.^{[lower-alpha 6]}
Pd	Punctuation, dash	Graphic	Character	26	Includes several hyphen characters
Ps	Punctuation, open	Graphic	Character	79	Opening bracket characters
Pe	Punctuation, close	Graphic	Character	77	Closing bracket characters
Pi	Punctuation, initial quote	Graphic	Character	12	Opening quotation mark. Does not include the ASCII "neutral" quotation mark. May behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage
Pf	Punctuation, final quote	Graphic	Character	10	Closing quotation mark. May behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage
Po	Punctuation, other	Graphic	Character	628
S, Symbol
Sm	Symbol, math	Graphic	Character	948	Mathematical symbols (e.g., +, −, =, ×, ÷, √, ∊, ≠). Does not include parentheses and brackets, which are in categories Ps and Pe. Also does not include !, *, -, or /, which despite frequent use as mathematical operators, are primarily considered to be "punctuation".
Sc	Symbol, currency	Graphic	Character	63	Currency symbols
Sk	Symbol, modifier	Graphic	Character	125
So	Symbol, other	Graphic	Character	6,639
Z, Separator
Zs	Separator, space	Graphic	Character	17	Includes the space, but not TAB, CR, or LF, which are Cc
Zl	Separator, line	Format	Character	1	Only U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR (LSEP)
Zp	Separator, paragraph	Format	Character	1	Only U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR (PSEP)
C, Other
Cc	Other, control	Control	Character	65 (will never change)^{[lower-alpha 5]}	No name,^{[lower-alpha 7]} <control>
Cf	Other, format	Format	Character	170	Includes the soft hyphen, joining control characters (ZWNJ and ZWJ), control characters to support bidirectional text, and language tag characters
Cs	Other, surrogate	Surrogate	Not (only used in UTF-16)	2,048 (will never change)^{[lower-alpha 5]}	No name,^{[lower-alpha 7]} <surrogate>
Co	Other, private use	Private-use	Character (but no interpretation specified)	137,468 total (will never change)^{[lower-alpha 5]} (6,400 in BMP, 131,068 in Planes 15–16)	No name,^{[lower-alpha 7]} <private-use>
Cn	Other, not assigned	Noncharacter	Not	66 (will not change unless the range of Unicode code points is expanded)^{[lower-alpha 5]}	No name,^{[lower-alpha 7]} <noncharacter>
Cn	Other, not assigned	Reserved	Not	824,652	No name,^{[lower-alpha 7]} <reserved>
"Table 4-4: General Category" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Unicode Consortium. September 2022. "Table 2-3: Types of code points" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Unicode Consortium. September 2022. "DerivedGeneralCategory.txt". The Unicode Consortium. 2022-04-26. "5.7.1 General Category Values". UTR #44: Unicode Character Database. Unicode Consortium. 2020-03-04. Unicode Character Encoding Stability Policies: Property Value Stability Stability policy: Some gc groups will never change. gc=Nd corresponds with Numeric Type=De (decimal). "Annex C: Compatibility Properties (§ word)". Unicode Regular Expressions. Version 23. Unicode Consortium. 2022-02-08. Unicode Technical Standard #18. "Table 4-9: Construction of Code Point Labels" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Unicode Consortium. September 2022. A Code Point Label may be used to identify a nameless code point. E.g. <control-hhhh>, <control-0088>. The Name remains blank, which can prevent inadvertently replacing, in documentation, a Control Name with a true Control code. Unicode also uses <not a character> for <noncharacter>.

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[fn1-1] "Table 4-4: General Category" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Unicode Consortium. September 2022.

[fn2-2] "Table 2-3: Types of code points" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Unicode Consortium. September 2022.

[fn6-3] "DerivedGeneralCategory.txt". The Unicode Consortium. 2022-04-26.

[fn5-4] "5.7.1 General Category Values". UTR #44: Unicode Character Database. Unicode Consortium. 2020-03-04.

[fn3-5] Unicode Character Encoding Stability Policies: Property Value Stability Stability policy: Some gc groups will never change. gc=Nd corresponds with Numeric Type=De (decimal).

[6] "Annex C: Compatibility Properties (§ word)". Unicode Regular Expressions. Version 23. Unicode Consortium. 2022-02-08. Unicode Technical Standard #18.

[fn4-7] "Table 4-9: Construction of Code Point Labels" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Unicode Consortium. September 2022. A Code Point Label may be used to identify a nameless code point. E.g. <control-hhhh>, <control-0088>. The Name remains blank, which can prevent inadvertently replacing, in documentation, a Control Name with a true Control code. Unicode also uses <not a character> for <noncharacter>.

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