Soyombo (Unicode block)

Soyombo
Range U+11A50..U+11AAF
(96 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Soyombo
Assigned 80 code points
Unused 16 reserved code points
Unicode version history
10.0 80 (+80)
Note: [1][2]

Soyombo is a Unicode block containing characters from the Soyombo alphabet, which is an abugida developed by the monk and scholar Zanabazar in 1686 to write Mongolian. It can also be used to write Tibetan and Sanskrit. In addition, this block includes the symbol on the flag of Mongolia.

Block

Soyombo[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+11A5x ๐‘ฉ ๐‘ฉ‘ ๐‘ฉ’ ๐‘ฉ“ ๐‘ฉ” ๐‘ฉ• ๐‘ฉ– ๐‘ฉ— ๐‘ฉ˜ ๐‘ฉ™ ๐‘ฉš ๐‘ฉ› ๐‘ฉœ ๐‘ฉ ๐‘ฉž ๐‘ฉŸ
U+11A6x ๐‘ฉ  ๐‘ฉก ๐‘ฉข ๐‘ฉฃ ๐‘ฉค ๐‘ฉฅ ๐‘ฉฆ ๐‘ฉง ๐‘ฉจ ๐‘ฉฉ ๐‘ฉช ๐‘ฉซ ๐‘ฉฌ ๐‘ฉญ ๐‘ฉฎ ๐‘ฉฏ
U+11A7x ๐‘ฉฐ ๐‘ฉฑ ๐‘ฉฒ ๐‘ฉณ ๐‘ฉด ๐‘ฉต ๐‘ฉถ ๐‘ฉท ๐‘ฉธ ๐‘ฉน ๐‘ฉบ ๐‘ฉป ๐‘ฉผ ๐‘ฉฝ ๐‘ฉพ ๐‘ฉฟ
U+11A8x ๐‘ช€ ๐‘ช ๐‘ช‚ ๐‘ชƒ  ๐‘ช†   ๐‘ช‡   ๐‘ชˆ   ๐‘ช‰  ๐‘ชŠ ๐‘ช‹ ๐‘ชŒ ๐‘ช ๐‘ชŽ ๐‘ช
U+11A9x ๐‘ช ๐‘ช‘ ๐‘ช’ ๐‘ช“ ๐‘ช” ๐‘ช• ๐‘ช– ๐‘ช— ๐‘ช˜  ๐‘ช™  ๐‘ชš ๐‘ช› ๐‘ชœ ๐‘ชž ๐‘ชŸ
U+11AAx ๐‘ช  ๐‘ชก ๐‘ชข
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 Soyombo block:

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
10.0 U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 80 L2/98-358 N1855 Sato, T. K. (1998-08-21), Addition of Soyombo script on ISO/IEC 10646 
L2/00-055 N2163 Sato, T. K. (2000-01-06), Soyombo and Pagba (old Mongol scripts) 
L2/10-399 N3949 Pandey, Anshuman (2010-10-30), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Soyombo Script 
L2/10-467 Sharma, Shriramana (2010-11-11), Comments on Soyombo and Xawtaa Dorboljin 
L2/11-054 N3986 Pandey, Anshuman (2011-02-05), Determining the Encoding Model for Soyombo Vowels 
L2/11-125 N4026 Pandey, Anshuman (2011-04-25), Revised Preliminary Proposal to Encode Soyombo 
L2/11-412 N4142 Pandey, Anshuman (2011-10-25), Proposal to Encode the Soyombo Script 
L2/13-069 N4414 Pandey, Anshuman (2013-04-22), Revised Proposal to Encode the Soyombo Script 
L2/13-075 Sharma, Shriramana (2013-04-25), Comments on the proposed Soyombo encoding 
L2/15-004 N4655 Pandey, Anshuman (2015-01-26), Proposal to Encode the Soyombo Script 
L2/15-009 N4653 Suzuki, Toshiya; Matsukawa, Takashi; Kuribayashi, Hitoshi (2015-01-26), Comments on Proposals of Zanabazar Square and Soyombo Script from Mongolian Experts 
L2/15-094 Pandey, Anshuman (2015-02-09), Response to Mongolian and Japanese comments on Soyombo and Zanabazar Square 
L2/15-249R Anderson, Deborah (2015-10-17), Summary of Ad Hoc Meeting on Two Historical Scripts from Mongolia (Tokyo, Japan) 
L2/15-247 Pandey, Anshuman (2015-10-20), Revised code chart and names list for Soyombo 
L2/15-248 Otgonbaatar, R.; Demberel, S. (2015-10-20), The Comments on Square script & Soyombo encoding project 
L2/15-262 Disposition of Comments on ISO/IEC CD 10646 (Ed.5), 2015-10-26 
L2/15-336 Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-07), Comments on L2/15-249 regarding Soyombo and Zanabazar Square punctuation 
L2/16-037 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurenศ›iu (2016-01-22), "8.c, 9", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals 
  1. โ†‘ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. โ†‘ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  2. โ†‘ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2017-06-20.
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