Mandaic (Unicode block)

Mandaic
Range U+0840..U+085F
(32 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Mandaic
Major alphabets Eastern Aramaic
Modern Mandaic
Assigned 29 code points
Unused 3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.0 29 (+29)
Note: [1][2]

Mandaic is a Unicode block containing characters of the Mandaic script used for writing the historic Eastern Aramaic, also called Classical Mandaic, and the modern Neo-Mandaic language.

Mandaic[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+084x
U+085x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 10.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Mandaic block:

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
6.0 U+0840..085B, 085E 29 L2/07-412 N3373 Everson, Michael (2008-01-18), Preliminary proposal to encode the Mandaic script in the BMP of the UCS 
L2/08-270R N3485R Everson, Michael; Richmond, Bob (2008-08-04), Proposal for encoding the Mandaic script in the BMP of the UCS 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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