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][2]

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.[3]

Block

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 ꡀ ꡁ ꡂ ꡃ ꡄ ꡅ ꡆ ꡇ ꡈ ꡉ ꡊ ꡋ ꡌ ꡍ ꡎ ꡏ
U+A85x ꡐ ꡑ ꡒ ꡓ ꡔ ꡕ ꡖ ꡗ ꡘ ꡙ ꡚ ꡛ ꡜ ꡝ ꡞ ꡟ
U+A86x ꡠ ꡡ ꡢ ꡣ ꡤ ꡥ ꡦ ꡧ ꡨ ꡩ ꡪ ꡫ ꡬ ꡭ ꡮ ꡯ
U+A87x ꡰ ꡱ ꡲ ꡳ ꡴ ꡵ ꡶ ꡷
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 10.0
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 ꡞ ꡞ‍ ‍ꡞ‍ ‍ꡞ
U+A85F PHAGS-PA LETTER U ꡟ ꡟ‍ ‍ꡟ‍ ‍ꡟ
U+A860 PHAGS-PA LETTER E ꡠ ꡠ‍ ‍ꡠ‍ ‍ꡠ
U+A861 PHAGS-PA LETTER O ꡡ ꡡ‍ ‍ꡡ‍ ‍ꡡ

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
5.0 U+A840..A877 56 L2/00-055 N2163 Sato, T. K. (2000-01-06), Soyombo and Pagba (old Mongol scripts) 
L2/03-224 Baxter, William H. (2003-07-10), Email on 'Phags-pa 
L2/03-246 Quejingzhabu; West, Andrew (2003-08-12), Letter commenting on Phags-pa encoding 
L2/03-269 West, Andrew; Fynn, Christopher (2003-08-16), E-mail questions and answers on Phags-pa encoding 
L2/03-229R3 N2622 West, Andrew (2003-09-18), Proposal to encode the Phags-pa script 
L2/03-366 N2666 Principles on Encoding Phags-pa Script, 2003-10-20 
L2/03-374 West, Andrew (2003-10-22), Response to N2666 (Principles on Encoding Phags-pa Script) 
N2912 Constable, Peter (2004-01-22), Open Issues on Phags-pa Encoding 
L2/04-085 N2706 Summary of Voting on ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 3696 : Project Subdivision Proposal for ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/Amendment 1, 2004-02-03 
L2/04-112 N2719 West, Andrew (2004-03-10), Response to Comments on Phags-pa Proposal in N2706 
L2/04-134 N2745 HPhags-pa script encoding, 2004-04-02 
L2/04-174 N2771 West, Andrew (2004-06-01), Comments on Chinese-Mongolian joint proposal to encode the Hphags-pa script (N2475) 
L2/04-275 N2829 Zhuang, Chen; Sen, Jia La; Ren, He Xi Ge Du; Tumurtogoo, Domi; Everson, Michael; Sekiguchi; Constable, Peter; Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2004-06-22), Consensus on the encoding of the Phags-pa script in the PDAM code chart 
L2/04-414 N2870 Summary of the Revised User's Agreement Related to Phags-pa Script, 2004-10-25 
L2/04-412 N2869 Proposal to Encode the Phags-Pa Script, 2004-11-17 
L2/04-413 N2869c Cover letter to Updated proposal to encode the Phags-pa Script, 2004-11-17 
L2/04-415 N2871 Some Problems on the Encoding of the Phags-pa Script, 2004-11-17 
L2/05-036 N2922 Consensus on Encoding Phags-pa Script, 2005-01-25 
L2/05-219 N2964 A User’s Agreement Related to Phags-pa Script, 2005-08-05 
L2/05-255 N2972 West, Andrew (2005-08-17), Glyph Forms for PHAGS-PA LETTER YA and PHAGS-PA LETTER ALTERNATE YA 
L2/05-257 N2979 West, Andrew (2005-09-01), Phags-pa Glyphs 
L2/12-360 Esfahbod, Behdad; Pournader, Roozbeh (2012-11-05), Mongolian and 'Phags-Pa Shaping 
L2/12-343R2 Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "B.14.5", UTC #133 Minutes 
  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. ↑ "Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.


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