The Supplementary Planes contain emoji, historic scripts, less used symbols, less used Chinese ideographs, etc. Since the encoding of Supplementary Planes contains 20 significant bits (10 of 16 bits in each of the high and low surrogates), 220 code points can be encoded, divided into 16 planes of 216 code points each. Including the separately-handled Basic Multilingual Plane, there are a total of 17 planes.