Unicode General Categories

Every Unicode character is assigned a general category — a high-level classification like Letter, Number, or Symbol. Categories are used by regular expressions (\p{L}, \p{N}) and text processing algorithms.

Letter

Ll
Lowercase Letter
Letters that are lowercase, such as a, b, c.
2,283 chars
Lm
Modifier Letter
Non-combining characters used to modify preceding letters.
410 chars
Lo
Other Letter
Letters that are not uppercase, lowercase, titlecase, or modifier letters.
141,062 chars
Lt
Titlecase Letter
Letters that are titlecase, used at the start of words in certain scripts.
31 chars
Lu
Uppercase Letter
Letters that are uppercase, such as A, B, C.
1,886 chars

Mark

Mc
Spacing Mark
Marks that take up space when rendered, such as some vowel signs.
471 chars
Me
Enclosing Mark
Marks that surround or enclose other characters.
13 chars
Mn
Non-Spacing Mark
Marks that do not take up space, typically accents and diacritics.
2,059 chars

Number

Nd
Decimal Number
Decimal digit characters, such as 0–9 and their equivalents in other scripts.
770 chars
Nl
Letter Number
Number characters that look like letters, such as Roman numerals.
239 chars
No
Other Number
Number characters that are not decimal digits or letter numbers.
915 chars

Punctuation

Pc
Connector Punctuation
Punctuation marks that connect words, such as the underscore.
10 chars
Pd
Dash Punctuation
Punctuation marks that separate words or clauses, such as hyphens and dashes.
27 chars
Pe
Close Punctuation
Closing punctuation marks, such as brackets and parentheses.
77 chars
Pf
Final Punctuation
Closing quotation marks.
10 chars
Pi
Initial Punctuation
Opening quotation marks.
12 chars
Po
Other Punctuation
Punctuation marks that are not connectors, dashes, brackets, or quotes.
641 chars
Ps
Open Punctuation
Opening punctuation marks, such as brackets and parentheses.
79 chars

Symbol

Sc
Currency Symbol
Currency symbols such as $, £, €, and ¥.
64 chars
Sk
Modifier Symbol
Modifier symbols that are not spacing combining marks.
125 chars
Sm
Math Symbol
Mathematical symbols such as +, =, <, and >.
960 chars
So
Other Symbol
Symbols that are not math, currency, or modifier symbols.
7,468 chars

Separator

Zl
Line Separator
The Unicode line separator character.
1 chars
Zp
Paragraph Separator
The Unicode paragraph separator character.
1 chars
Zs
Space Separator
Space characters of various widths.
17 chars

Other

Cc
Control
Control characters such as carriage return, tab, and null.
65 chars
Cf
Format
Non-visible formatting characters such as the zero-width joiner.
170 chars
Co
Private Use
Code points reserved for private use by applications.
137,468 chars
Cs
Surrogate
High and low surrogate code points used in UTF-16 encoding.
2,048 chars