Phags-pa (Unicode block)

Phags-pa
Range U+A840..U+A87F
(64 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Phags-pa
Major alphabets Mongolian
Chinese
Assigned 56 code points
Unused 8 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.0 56 (+56)
Note: [1]

Phags-pa is a Unicode block containing characters from the 'Phags-pa script promulgated as a national script by Kublai Khan. It was used primarily in writing Mongolian and Chinese, although it was intended for the use of all languages of the Mongol Empire.

The block has six variation sequences defined for standardized variants.[2][3]

Phags-pa[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+A84x
U+A85x
U+A86x
U+A87x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 8.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Note that four vowel letters have positional variants:

Positional Forms of I, U, E, and O
Character Isolate Initial Medial Final
U+A85E PHAGS-PA LETTER I
U+A85F PHAGS-PA LETTER U
U+A860 PHAGS-PA LETTER E
U+A861 PHAGS-PA LETTER O

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
  2. "Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variants". The Unicode Consortium.
  3. "Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.


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