Brahmi (Unicode block)
Brahmi is a Unicode block containing characters written in India from the 3rd century BCE through the first millennium CE. It is the predecessor to all modern Indic scripts.
| Brahmi[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+1100x | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ |
| U+1101x | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ |
| U+1102x | ๐ | ๐ก | ๐ข | ๐ฃ | ๐ค | ๐ฅ | ๐ฆ | ๐ง | ๐จ | ๐ฉ | ๐ช | ๐ซ | ๐ฌ | ๐ญ | ๐ฎ | ๐ฏ |
| U+1103x | ๐ฐ | ๐ฑ | ๐ฒ | ๐ณ | ๐ด | ๐ต | ๐ถ | ๐ท | ๐ธ | ๐น | ๐บ | ๐ป | ๐ผ | ๐ฝ | ๐พ | ๐ฟ |
| U+1104x | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ||
| U+1105x | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ๐ | ||
| U+1106x | ๐ | ๐ก | ๐ข | ๐ฃ | ๐ค | ๐ฅ | ๐ฆ | ๐ง | ๐จ | ๐ฉ | ๐ช | ๐ซ | ๐ฌ | ๐ญ | ๐ฎ | ๐ฏ |
| U+1107x | ๐ฐ | ๐ฑ | ๐ฒ | ๐ณ | ๐ด | ๐ต | BNJ | |||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
| Brahmi | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+11000..U+1107F (128 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Brahmi |
| Assigned | 115 code points |
| Unused | 13 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 6.0 (2010) | 108 (+108) |
| 7.0 (2014) | 109 (+1) |
| 14.0 (2021) | 115 (+6) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chartโโฃโWeb page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Brahmi block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | U+11000..1104D, 11052..1106F | 108 | L2/98-032 | N1685 | Everson, Michael (1998-01-18), Proposal to encode Brahmi in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 |
| L2/98-286 | N1703 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.19", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20 | |||
| L2/00-128 | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode | ||||
| L2/02-397 | Baums, Stefan; Glass, Andrew (2002-11-02), Note for the UTC on the encoding of Brahmi in Unicode | ||||
| L2/03-249R | Baums, Stefan; Glass, Andrew (2003-07-27), Proposal for the Encoding of Brahmi in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 | ||||
| L2/08-277R | N3490R | Everson, Michael; Glass, Andrew; Baums, Stefan (2007-08-14), Progressing the encoding of Brahmi in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/07-342 | N3491 | Baums, Stefan; Glass, Andrew (2007-10-09), Proposal for the encoding of Brฤhmฤซ in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 | |||
| L2/07-406 | Glass, Andrew; Baums, Stefan (2007-10-31), Scripts on Roadmap covered by Brahmi encoding (L2/07-342) | ||||
| L2/08-253R2 | Moore, Lisa (2008-08-19), "Brahmi (B.15.1, C.3.1)", UTC #116 Minutes | ||||
| L2/08-412 | N3553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.22", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53 | |||
| L2/12-020 | Sharma, Shriramana (2012-01-12), Special rendering of some jihvamuliya/upadhmaniya characters | ||||
| L2/12-031 | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-01-27), "III. BRAHMI", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC | ||||
| L2/12-007 | Moore, Lisa (2012-02-14), "Consensus 130-C11", UTC #130 / L2 #227 Minutes, The UTC has determined that a virama should not be used in Sharada sequences involving Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya. | ||||
| L2/12-106 | Sharma, Shriramana (2012-03-17), "5. Brahmi", Request for editorial updates to various Indic scripts | ||||
| L2/12-147 | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-04-25), "V. BRAHMI", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC | ||||
| L2/12-239 | Moore, Lisa (2012-08-14), "Consensus 132-C16", UTC #132 Minutes, Create a glyph erratum for Brahmi Letter LLLA based on the image in document L2/12-292. | ||||
| L2/14-066 | Sharma, Shriramana (2014-02-07), Representation of the Brahmi and Kannada Jihvamuliya/Upadhmaniya Characters in the Code Charts | ||||
| L2/16-343 | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-11-05), Request to change the glyphs of Brahmi vowel signs Vocalic R and Vocalic RR | ||||
| L2/16-321R | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-12-23), Request to change the glyph of 11008 BRAHMI LETTER II | ||||
| L2/17-037 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurenศiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "3. Brahmi", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/17-016 | Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "Consensus 150-C11, Action item 150-A64", UTC #150 Minutes | ||||
| L2/17-224 | McGowan, Rick (2017-07-25), "Dotted box for Brahmi/Kannada fricative characters", Comments on Public Review Issues (May 01 - July 25, 2017) | ||||
| L2/17-426 | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-12-08), Request to change the glyphs of THIRTY and FORTY of Brahmi | ||||
| L2/18-039 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Cook, Richard (2018-01-19), "8. Brahmi", Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/17-362 | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "153-A92", UTC #153 Minutes | ||||
| L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "Action item 154-A103", UTC #155 Minutes, Create a glyph erratum for U+1105D and U+1105E. | ||||
| 7.0 | U+1107F | 1 | L2/10-340 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-09-14), Using ZWJ in the encoded representation of Brahmi numbers | |
| L2/10-440 | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-10-27), "3. Brahmi Numbers", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC | ||||
| L2/10-416R | Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "Action item 125-A20", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes, Create an alternate proposal for Brahmi numbers. | ||||
| L2/11-357R | N4166 | Glass, Andrew; Sharma, Shriramana (2011-11-02), Proposal to encode 1107F Brahmi Number Joiner | |||
| L2/11-353 | Moore, Lisa (2011-11-30), "D.8", UTC #129 / L2 #226 Minutes | ||||
| N4253 (pdf, doc) | "M59.16d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12 | ||||
| 14.0 | U+11070..11075 | 6 | L2/19-402 | Rajan, Vinodh; Sharma, Shriramana (2019-12-18), Proposal to Encode 6 Characters in the Brahmi Block | |
| L2/20-046 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2020-01-10), "7. Brahmi", Recommendations to UTC #162 January 2020 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/20-015R | Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "D.3 Proposal to Encode 6 Characters in the Brahmi Block", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162 | ||||
| L2/20-129 | Ganesan, Naga (2020-06-01), Comments on L2/20-069: Encoding of Tamil Brahmi Virama (U+11070) | ||||
| L2/20-169 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-07-21), "10. Brahmi", Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/20-172 | Moore, Lisa (2020-08-03), "Consensus 164-C13", UTC #164 Minutes | ||||
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References
- "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
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