| | | | Designation |
| ClosePunctuation | 21 | Closing character of one of the paired punctuation marks, such as parentheses, square brackets, and braces. | Pe |
| ConnectorPunctuation | 18 | Connector punctuation character that connects two characters. | Pc |
| Control | 14 | Control code character, with a Unicode value of U+007F or in the range U+0000 through U+001F or U+0080 through U+009F. | Cc |
| CurrencySymbol | 26 | Currency symbol character. | Sc |
| DashPunctuation | 19 | Dash or hyphen character. | Pd |
| DecimalDigitNumber | 8 | Decimal digit character, that is, a character in the range 0 through 9. | Nd |
| EnclosingMark | 7 | Enclosing mark character, which is a nonspacing combining character that surrounds all previous characters up to and including a base character. | Me |
| FinalQuotePunctuation | 23 | Closing or final quotation mark character. | Pf |
| Format | 15 | Format character that affects the layout of text or the operation of text processes, but is not normally rendered. | Cf |
| InitialQuotePunctuation | 22 | Opening or initial quotation mark character. | Pi |
| LetterNumber | 9 | A number represented by a letter, instead of a decimal digit (for example the Roman numerals). | Nl |
| LineSeparator | 12 | Character that is used to separate lines of text. | Zl |
| LowercaseLetter | 1 | Lowercase letter. | Ll |
| MathSymbol | 25 | Mathematical symbol character, such as + or =. | Sm |
| ModifierLetter | 3 | Modifier letter character, which is free-standing spacing character that indicates modifications of a preceding letter. | Lm |
| ModifierSymbol | 27 | Modifier symbol character, which indicates modifications of surrounding characters. For example, the fraction slash indicates that the number to the left is the numerator and the number to the right is the denominator. | Sk |
| NonSpacingMark | 5 | Nonspacing character that indicates modifications of a base character. | Mn |
| OpenPunctuation | 20 | Opening character of one of the paired punctuation marks, such as parentheses, square brackets, and braces. | Ps |
| OtherLetter | 4 | Letter that is not an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, a titlecase letter, or a modifier letter. | Lo |
| OtherNotAssigned | 29 | Character that is not assigned to any Unicode category. | Cn |
| OtherNumber | 10 | Number that is neither a decimal digit nor a letter number, for example, the fraction ½. | No |
| OtherPunctuation | 24 | Punctuation character that is not a connector, a dash, open punctuation, close punctuation, an initial quote, or a final quote. | Po |
| OtherSymbol | 28 | Symbol character that is not a mathematical symbol, a currency symbol or a modifier symbol. | So |
| ParagraphSeparator | 13 | Character used to separate paragraphs. | Zp |
| PrivateUse | 17 | Private-use character, with a Unicode value in the range U+E000 through U+F8FF. | Co |
| SpaceSeparator | 11 | Space character, which has no glyph but is not a control or format character. | Zs |
| SpacingCombiningMark | 6 | Spacing character that indicates modifications of a base character and affects the width of the glyph for that base character. | Mc |
| Surrogate | 16 | High surrogate or a low surrogate character. Surrogate code values are in the range U+D800 through U+DFFF. | Cs |
| TitlecaseLetter | 2 | Titlecase letter. | Lt |
| UppercaseLetter | 0 | Uppercase letter. | Lu |