Supplementary Ideographic Plane

Supplementary Ideographic Plane

(text, standard)(SIP) The third plane (plane 2) defined inUnicode/ISO 10646, designed to hold all the ideographsdescended from Chinese writing (mainly found in Vietnamese,Korean, Japanese and Chinese) that aren't found in the Basic Multilingual Plane. The BMP was supposed to hold allideographs in modern use; unfortunately, many Chinese dialects(like Cantonese and Hong Kong Chinese) were overlooked; towrite these, characters from the SIP are necessary. This isone reason even non-academic software must support charactersoutside the BMP.

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