Meroitic Hieroglyphs (Unicode block)

Meroitic Hieroglyphs
Range U+10980..U+1099F
(32 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Meroitic Hieroglyphs
Major alphabets Meroitic Egyptian
Assigned 32 code points
Unused 0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.1 32 (+32)
Note: [1][2]

Meroitic Hieroglyphs is a Unicode block formal hieroglyphic containing characters for writing Meroitic Egyptian.[3]

Meroitic Hieroglyphs[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1098x 𐦀 𐦁 𐦂 𐦃 𐦄 𐦅 𐦆 𐦇 𐦈 𐦉 𐦊 𐦋 𐦌 𐦍 𐦎 𐦏
U+1099x 𐦐 𐦑 𐦒 𐦓 𐦔 𐦕 𐦖 𐦗 𐦘 𐦙 𐦚 𐦛 𐦜 𐦝 𐦞 𐦟
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 10.0

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
6.1 U+10980..1099F 32 L2/97-268 N1638 Everson, Michael (1997-09-18), Proposal to encode Meroitic in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646-2 
L2/99-222 N2098 Wolf, Pawel (1999-07-13), Report on the standardization of a Meroitic sign list for Unicode 
N2134 Everson, Michael (1999-10-02), Response to comments on the question of encoding Meroitic in the UCS (N2098) 
L2/08-269 N3484 Everson, Michael (2008-08-04), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Meroitic script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/09-188R2 N3646R2 Everson, Michael (2009-05-13), Proposal for encoding the Meroitic script in the SMP of the UCS 
L2/09-250 N3665 Everson, Michael (2009-07-29), Proposal for encoding the Meroitic Hieroglyphic and the Meroitic Cursive scripts in the SMP 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.
  3. ↑ Everson, Michael (2009-07-29). "N3665: Proposal for encoding the Meroitic Hieroglyphic and the Meroitic Cursive scripts in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.
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