Um bloco contíguo de 65.536 pontos de código. O Unicode tem 17 planos (0–16): o Plano 0 é o BMP, o Plano 1 é o SMP (emoji, escritas históricas), o Plano 2 é o SIP (extensões CJK).

What is Plano suplementar?

Planos 1–16 (U+10000–U+10FFFF), contendo emoji, escritas históricas, extensões CJK e notação musical. Requer pares substitutos em UTF-16.

What is Ponto de código?

Valor numérico no espaço de código Unicode (U+0000 a U+10FFFF), escrito como U+XXXX. Nem todos os pontos de código são atribuídos a caracteres.

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Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Plano 0 (U+0000–U+FFFF), contendo os caracteres mais usados, incluindo latino, grego, cirílico, CJK, árabe e a maioria dos símbolos. Os caracteres aqui cabem em uma única unidade de código UTF-16.

2021-06-02 · Updated 2024-08-15

What is the Basic Multilingual Plane?

The Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) is Plane 0 of the Unicode code space, covering code points U+0000 through U+FFFF — a range of exactly 65,536 positions. It was designed to hold all the characters needed for modern text in the world's actively used scripts, and it largely succeeded: the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, CJK, and dozens of other scripts all fit within the BMP.

The BMP's boundaries matter beyond just organization. Because BMP code points fit in a single 16-bit value (0x0000–0xFFFF), they can be stored as a single code unit in UTF-16, and they are the direct ancestors of UCS-2, the predecessor to UTF-16.

What Lives in the BMP

The BMP is organized into blocks — contiguous ranges assigned to specific scripts or purposes. Notable regions include:

Range	Contents
U+0000–U+007F	Basic Latin (ASCII)
U+0080–U+00FF	Latin-1 Supplement
U+0370–U+03FF	Greek and Coptic
U+0400–U+04FF	Cyrillic
U+0600–U+06FF	Arabic
U+0900–U+097F	Devanagari
U+3040–U+309F	Hiragana
U+30A0–U+30FF	Katakana
U+4E00–U+9FFF	CJK Unified Ideographs (core)
U+AC00–U+D7AF	Hangul Syllables (11,172 precomposed)
U+E000–U+F8FF	Private Use Area
U+D800–U+DFFF	Surrogate range (not real characters)
U+FFF0–U+FFFF	Specials (including U+FFFD replacement character)

The Surrogate Hole

One important quirk: the range U+D800–U+DFFF (2,048 code points) is permanently reserved for surrogates — the mechanism UTF-16 uses to encode characters above U+FFFF. These code points can never be assigned to real characters. You will sometimes see UTF-16 described as covering the "BMP minus surrogates."

BMP vs Supplementary Characters

Any character with a code point above U+FFFF is a supplementary character and requires special handling in encodings optimized for the BMP:

Encoding	BMP character	Supplementary character
UTF-8	1–3 bytes	4 bytes
UTF-16	1 code unit (2 bytes)	2 code units (4 bytes, surrogate pair)
UTF-32	1 code unit (4 bytes)	1 code unit (4 bytes, no difference)

In UTF-16, supplementary characters require a surrogate pair — two 16-bit code units working together. Most emoji fall into Plane 1 (U+1F000+) and are therefore supplementary.

Historical Significance

Early Unicode architects hoped that 65,536 code points would be enough for all world languages forever. They were wrong. By Unicode 2.0, it was clear that CJK ideographs alone would eventually overflow the BMP, and the standard was extended to 17 planes. This is why legacy systems built on UCS-2 (a fixed-width 16-bit encoding) failed: they could only represent BMP characters.

Common Pitfalls

UCS-2 vs UTF-16: UCS-2 encodes only the BMP using fixed 2-byte units. UTF-16 extends UCS-2 with surrogate pairs for supplementary characters. Many old systems claiming "Unicode support" actually only support UCS-2 (BMP-only).

Emoji in JavaScript: Because JavaScript strings are UTF-16, emoji (Plane 1) have .length of 2, not 1. Iterating with spread or Array.from() corrects this.

"🎉".length      // 2 (two UTF-16 code units)
[..."🎉"].length // 1 (one Unicode code point)

Quick Facts

Property	Value
Code point range	U+0000–U+FFFF
Total positions	65,536
Plane number	0
Also known as	Plane 0, BMP
UTF-16 code units needed	1 (for all non-surrogate BMP chars)
Surrogate range (excluded)	U+D800–U+DFFF (2,048 points)
Characters assigned (approx.)	~55,000
Predecessor encoding	UCS-2 (BMP-only, no surrogates)