Table 125 – Glyph classes in CJK fonts

Character Collection

Class

Glyphs in Class

Adobe-GB1

Alphabetic

Dingbats

Generic

Hanzi

HRoman

HRomanRot

Kana

Proportional

ProportionalRot

Full-width Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs

Special symbols

Typeface-independent glyphs, such as line-drawing

Full-width hanzi (Chinese) glyphs

Half-width Latin glyphs

Same as HRoman but rotated for use in vertical writing

Japanese kana (katakana and hiragana) glyphs

Proportional Latin glyphs

Same as Proportional but rotated for use in vertical writing

Adobe-CNS1

Alphabetic

Dingbats

Generic

Hanzi

HRoman

HRomanRot

Kana

Proportional

ProportionalRot

Full-width Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs

Special symbols

Typeface-independent glyphs, such as line-drawing

Full-width hanzi (Chinese) glyphs

Half-width Latin glyphs

Same as HRoman but rotated for use in vertical writing

Japanese kana (katakana and hiragana) glyphs

Proportional Latin glyphs

Same as Proportional but rotated for use in vertical writing

Adobe-Japan1

Alphabetic

AlphaNum

Dingbats

DingbatsRot

Generic

GenericRot

HKana

HKanaRot

HRoman

HRomanRot

Kana

Kanji

Proportional

ProportionalRot

Ruby

Full-width Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs

Numeric glyphs

Special symbols

Same as Dingbats but rotated for use in vertical writing

Typeface-independent glyphs, such as line-drawing

Same as Generic but rotated for use in vertical writing

Half-width kana (katakana and hiragana) glyphs

Same as HKana but rotated for use in vertical writing

Half-width Latin glyphs

Same as HRoman but rotated for use in vertical writing

Full-width kana (katakana and hiragana) glyphs

Full-width kanji (Chinese) glyphs

Proportional Latin glyphs

Same as Proportional but rotated for use in vertical writing

Glyphs used for setting ruby (small glyphs that serve to annotate other glyphs with meanings or readings)

Adobe-Japan2

Alphabetic

Dingbats

HojoKanji

Full-width Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs

Special symbols

Full-width kanji glyphs

Adobe-Korea1

Alphabetic

Dingbats

Generic

Hangul

Hanja

HRoman

HRomanRot

Kana

Proportional

ProportionalRot

Full-width Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs

Special symbols

Typeface-independent glyphs, such as line-drawing

Hangul and jamo glyphs

Full-width hanja (Chinese) glyphs

Half-width Latin glyphs

Same as HRoman but rotated for use in vertical writing

Japanese kana (katakana and hiragana) glyphs

Proportional Latin glyphs

Same as Proportional but rotated for use in vertical writing