GBK stands for Guo (national) Biao (Standard) Kuo
(Extension). GB18030 expands the national "Industry GB" definition
to contain all 20, 902 Han Characters defined in Unicode and additional
DBCS symbols defined in Big-5 code (Traditional Chinese PC defacto
standard). GB18030 defines all DBCS characters and symbols in use
in mainland China and in Taiwan.
| Locale |
Code Set |
Description |
| Zh_CN |
GB18030 |
Simplified Chinese, GB18030 Locale |
| Code Range |
Words |
Marks |
| A1A1-A9FE |
846 |
GB2312, GB12345 (GBK/1) |
| A840-A9A0 |
192 |
Big5, Symbols (GBK/5) |
| B0A1-F7FE |
6768 |
GB2312 (GBK/2) |
| 8140-A0FE |
6080 |
GB13000 (GBK/3) |
| AA40-FEA0 |
8160 |
GB13000 (GBK/4) |
| AAA1-AFFE |
564 |
User defined 1 |
| F8A1-FEFE |
658 |
User defined 2 |
| A140-A7A0 |
672 |
User defined 3 |