Sogdian (Unicode block)

See also: Old Sogdian (Unicode block)
Sogdian
RangeU+10F30..U+10F6F
(64 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsSogdian
Assigned42 code points
Unused22 reserved code points
Unicode version history
11.0 (2018)42 (+42)
Unicode documentation
Code chartโ€ƒโˆฃโ€ƒWeb page
Note: [1][2]

Sogdian is a Unicode block containing characters used to write the Sogdian language from the 7th to 14th centuries CE.[3]

Block

Sogdian[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
ย  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+10F3x ๐ผฐโ€Ž ๐ผฑโ€Ž ๐ผฒโ€Ž ๐ผณโ€Ž ๐ผดโ€Ž ๐ผตโ€Ž ๐ผถโ€Ž ๐ผทโ€Ž ๐ผธโ€Ž ๐ผนโ€Ž ๐ผบโ€Ž ๐ผปโ€Ž ๐ผผโ€Ž ๐ผฝโ€Ž ๐ผพโ€Ž ๐ผฟโ€Ž
U+10F4x ๐ฝ€โ€Ž ๐ฝโ€Ž ๐ฝ‚โ€Ž ๐ฝƒโ€Ž ๐ฝ„โ€Ž ๐ฝ…โ€Ž ๐ฝ†โ€Ž ๐ฝ‡โ€Ž ๐ฝˆโ€Ž ๐ฝ‰โ€Ž ๐ฝŠโ€Ž ๐ฝ‹โ€Ž ๐ฝŒโ€Ž ๐ฝโ€Ž ๐ฝŽโ€Ž ๐ฝโ€Ž
U+10F5x ๐ฝโ€Ž ๐ฝ‘โ€Ž ๐ฝ’โ€Ž ๐ฝ“โ€Ž ๐ฝ”โ€Ž ๐ฝ•โ€Ž ๐ฝ–โ€Ž ๐ฝ—โ€Ž ๐ฝ˜โ€Ž ๐ฝ™โ€Ž
U+10F6x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
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 Sogdian block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2ย ID WG2ย ID Document
11.0 U+10F30..10F59 42 L2/00-128 Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
L2/01-007 Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Inscriptional Alphabets (Middle Persian, Parthian) and Sogdian vs. Aramaic", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode
L2/02-009 Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Sogdian script", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report
L2/16-158 Pandey, Anshuman (2016-05-09), Preliminary proposal to encode Sogdian in Unicode
L2/16-216 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurenศ›iu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), "7. Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals
L2/17-037 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurenศ›iu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "14. Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
L2/17-016 Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.12", UTC #150 Minutes
L2/16-371R2 N4815 Pandey, Anshuman (2017-01-25), Revised proposal to encode the Sogdian script
L2/18-115 Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "B.11.12", UTC #155 Minutes
N5020 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "6.2.2 and 6.2.3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

Font

There is a Unicode font encoding Sogdian - Noto Sans Sogdian.

References

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ "Chapter 14: South and Central Asia-III, Ancient Scripts". The Unicode Standard, Version 11.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2018. ISBNย 978-1-936213-19-1.