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C Other
Cc Control (Unicode code points in the ranges U+0000-U+001F and U+007F-U+009F)
Cf Format (Soft hyphen (U+00AD), zero width space (U+200B), etc.)
Cn Unassigned (Any code point that is not in the Unicode table)
Co Private use
Cs Surrogate (Characters in the range U+D800 to U+DFFF, which are invalid in utf-8)
L Letter
Ll Lower case letter (a-z, µßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýþÿ and more)
Lm Modifier letter (Letter-like characters that are usually combined with others, but here they stand alone:
ʰʱʲʳʴʵʶʷʸʹʺʻʼʽʾʿˀˁˆˇˈˉˊˋˌˍˎˏːˑˠˡˢˣˤˬˮʹͺՙ and more)
Lo Other letter (ªºƻǀǁǂǃʔ and many more ideographs and letters from unicase alphabets)
Lt Title case letter (DžLjNjDzᾈᾉᾊᾋᾌᾍᾎᾏᾘᾙᾚᾛᾜᾝᾞᾟᾨᾩᾪᾫᾬᾭᾮᾯᾼῌῼ)
Lu Upper case letter (A-Z, ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞ and more)
L& Ordinary letter (Any character that has the Lu, Ll, or Lt property)
M Mark
Mc Spacing mark (None in latin scripts)
Me Enclosing mark (Combining enclosing square (U+20DE) like in a⃞ , combining enclosing circle backslash (U+20E0) like in a⃠)
Mn Non-spacing mark (Combining diacritical marks U+0300-U+036f, like the accents on this letter a: áâãāa̅ăȧäảåa̋ǎa̍a̎ȁa̐ȃ)
N Number
Nd Decimal number (0123456789, ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩ and digits in many other scripts.)
Nl Letter number (ⅠⅡⅢⅣⅤⅥⅦⅧⅨⅩⅪⅫⅬⅭⅮⅯⅰⅱⅲⅳⅴⅵⅶⅷⅸⅹⅺⅻⅼⅽⅾⅿ and some more)
No Other number (⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹ ₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉ ½⅓⅔¼¾⅕⅖⅗⅘⅙⅚⅐⅛⅜⅝⅞⅑⅒ ①②③④⑤⑥⑦⑧⑨⑩⑪⑫⑬⑭⑮⑯⑰⑱⑲⑳, etc.)
P Punctuation
Pc Connector punctuation (_ underscore (U+005F), ‿ undertie U+203F, ⁀ character tie (U+2040), etc.)
Pd Dash punctuation (- hyphen-minus (U+002D), ‐ hyphen (U+2010), ‑ non-breaking hyphen (U+2011), ‒ figure dash (U+2012),
– en dash (U+2013), — em dash (U+2014), ― horizontal bar (U+2015), etc.)
Pe Close punctuation (right parenthesis, bracket, or brace: `)` (U+0029), `]` (U+005D), `}` (U+007D), etc.)
Pf Final punctuation (right quotation marks: » (U+00BB), ’ (U+2019), ” (U+201D), etc.)
Pi Initial punctuation (left quotation marks: « (U+00AB), ‘ (U+2018), “ (U+201C), etc.)
Po Other punctuation (!"#%&'*,./:;?@\¡§¶·¿)
Ps Open punctuation (left parenthesis, bracket, or brace: `(` (U+0028), `[` (U+005B), `{` (U+007B), etc.)
S Symbol
Sc Currency symbol ($¢£¤¥, ₠ ₡ ₢ ₣ ₤ ₥ ₦ ₧ ₨ ₩ ₪ ₫ € ₭ ₮ ₯ ₰ ₱ ₲ ₳ ₴ ₵ ₶ ₷ ₸ ₹ ₺ ₻ ₼ ₽ ₾ ₿ (U+20A0-U+20BF), etc.)
Sk Modifier symbol (Symbol-like characters that are usually combined with others, but here they stand alone:
^`¨¯´¸ and more)
Sm Mathematical symbol (+<=>|~¬±×÷϶ and many more)
So Other symbol (¦ broken bar (U+00A6), © copyright sign (U+00A9), ® registered sign (U+00AE), ° degree sign (U+00B0);
arrows, signs, emojis and many many more)
Z Separator
Zl Line separator (line separator (U+2028))
Zp Paragraph separator (paragraph separator (U+2029))
Zs Space separator (space, no-break space, en quad, em quad, en space, em space, figure space, thin space, hair space, etc.)