Editing Unicode block (section)

== Other classifications ==
Each Unicode point also has a property called "[[General Category (Unicode)|General Category]]", that attempts to describe the role of the corresponding symbol in the languages or applications for whose sake it was included in the system.  Examples of General Categories are "Lu" (meaning upper-case letter), "Nd" (decimal digit), "Pi" (open-quote punctuation), and "Mn" (non-spacing mark, i.e. a diacritic for the preceding glyph).  This division is completely independent of code blocks: the code points with a given General Category generally span many blocks, and do not have to be consecutive, not even within each block.<ref name=uniprops>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode14.0.0/ch04.pdf#G124142|title=Unicode Core Specification, Chapter 4: Character Properties|access-date=2021-09-15}}</ref>

Each code point also has a [[Scripts in Unicode|script property]], specifying which [[writing system]] it is intended for, or whether it is intended for multiple writing systems. This, also, is independent of block.

In descriptions of the Unicode system, a block may be subdivided into more specific subgroups, such as the "[[Chess symbols in Unicode|Chess symbols]]" in the [[Miscellaneous Symbols]] block (not to be confused with the separate [[Chess Symbols]] block).  Those subgroups are not "blocks" in the technical sense used by the Unicode consortium, and are named only for the convenience of users.