Soyombo (Unicode block)
Soyombo is a Unicode block containing characters from the Soyombo alphabet, which is an abugida developed by the monk and scholar Zanabazar (1635โ1723) in 1686 to write Mongolian. It can also be used to write Tibetan and Sanskrit. In addition, this block includes the Soyombo symbol on the flag of Mongolia.
| Soyombo | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+11A50..U+11AAF (96 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Soyombo |
| Assigned | 83 code points |
| Unused | 13 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 10.0 (2017) | 80 (+80) |
| 11.0 (2018) | 81 (+1) |
| 12.0 (2019) | 83 (+2) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chartโโฃโWeb page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Block
The Soyombo block was added to Unicode in June 2017 with version 10.0:[3]
| 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 | ๐ฉโ | ๐ฉโ | ๐ฉโ | ๐ฉโ | ๐ฉโ | ๐ฉโ | ๐ฉโ | ๐ฉโ | ๐ฉโ | ๐ฉโ | ๐ฉโ | ๐ฉโ | ๐ฉโ | ๐ฉโ | ๐ฉโ | ๐ฉโ |
| U+11A6x | ๐ฉ โ | ๐ฉกโ | ๐ฉขโ | ๐ฉฃโ | ๐ฉคโ | ๐ฉฅโ | ๐ฉฆโ | ๐ฉงโ | ๐ฉจโ | ๐ฉฉโ | ๐ฉชโ | ๐ฉซโ | ๐ฉฌโ | ๐ฉญโ | ๐ฉฎโ | ๐ฉฏโ |
| U+11A7x | ๐ฉฐโ | ๐ฉฑโ | ๐ฉฒโ | ๐ฉณโ | ๐ฉดโ | ๐ฉตโ | ๐ฉถโ | ๐ฉทโ | ๐ฉธโ | ๐ฉนโ | ๐ฉบโ | ๐ฉปโ | ๐ฉผโ | ๐ฉฝโ | ๐ฉพโ | ๐ฉฟโ |
| U+11A8x | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ช โ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ |
| U+11A9x | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ | ๐ชโ |
| U+11AAx | ๐ช โ | ๐ชกโ | ๐ชขโ | |||||||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
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 |
| L2/99-010 | N1903 (pdf, html, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "9.2", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25 | |||
| L2/00-055 | N2163 (pdf, doc) | 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 | ||||
| L2/13-086 | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-04-26), "6", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals | ||||
| N4403 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "10.2.5 Soyombo script", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14 | ||||
| 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 | |||
| L2/15-045 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew (2015-01-30), "8. Soyombo", Recommendations to UTC #142 February 2015 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/15-094 | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-02-09), Response to Mongolian and Japanese comments on Soyombo and Zanabazar Square | ||||
| L2/15-017 | Moore, Lisa (2015-02-12), "D.7", UTC #142 Minutes | ||||
| L2/15-149 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), "9. Soyombo", Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/15-249R | Anderson, Deborah (2015-10-17), Summary of Ad Hoc Meeting on Two Historical Scripts from Mongolia (Tokyo, Japan) | ||||
| N4699 | 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 | ||||
| L2/15-254 | Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "Consensus 145-C18", UTC #145 Minutes, Approve new Soyombo repertoire, codepoints, names, and glyphs, on the basis of CD2 draft, document L2/15-303. | ||||
| 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, Laurenศiu (2016-01-22), "8.c, 9", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals | ||||
| N4739 | "M64.05k", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31 | ||||
| 11.0 | U+11A9D | 1 | L2/16-016 | Pandey, Anshuman (2016-01-06), Proposal to encode the Soyombo mark PLUTA | |
| L2/16-004 | Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), "D.10.1", UTC #146 Minutes | ||||
| 12.0 | U+11A84..11A85 | 2 | L2/15-331 | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-03), Proposal to encode JIHVAMULIYA and UPADHMANIYA for Soyombo | |
| L2/16-037 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurenศiu (2016-01-22), "8. Soyombo", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/17-235 | N4867 | Pandey, Anshuman (2017-07-21), Proposal to encode JIHVAMULIYA and UPADHMANIYA for Soyombo | |||
| L2/17-222 | Moore, Lisa (2017-08-11), "D.5", UTC #152 Minutes | ||||
| N4953 (pdf, doc) | "M66.16g", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23 | ||||
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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.
- "Unicode 10.0.0". www.unicode.org.
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