Kaithi (Unicode block)

Kaithi
Range U+11080..U+110CF
(80 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Kaithi
Major alphabets Bhojpuri
Magahi
Awadhi
Maithili
Urdu
Assigned 67 code points
Unused 13 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2 66 (+66)
11.0 67 (+1)
Note: [1][2]

Kaithi is a Unicode block containing characters historically used for writing Bhojpuri, Magahi, Awadhi, Maithili, Urdu, and other Hindi-related languages of the Bihar/Uttar Pradesh area of northern India.

Kaithi[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1108x ๐‘‚€ ๐‘‚ ๐‘‚‚ ๐‘‚ƒ ๐‘‚„ ๐‘‚… ๐‘‚† ๐‘‚‡ ๐‘‚ˆ ๐‘‚‰ ๐‘‚Š ๐‘‚‹ ๐‘‚Œ ๐‘‚ ๐‘‚Ž ๐‘‚
U+1109x ๐‘‚ ๐‘‚‘ ๐‘‚’ ๐‘‚“ ๐‘‚” ๐‘‚• ๐‘‚– ๐‘‚— ๐‘‚˜ ๐‘‚™ ๐‘‚š ๐‘‚› ๐‘‚œ ๐‘‚ ๐‘‚ž ๐‘‚Ÿ
U+110Ax ๐‘‚  ๐‘‚ก ๐‘‚ข ๐‘‚ฃ ๐‘‚ค ๐‘‚ฅ ๐‘‚ฆ ๐‘‚ง ๐‘‚จ ๐‘‚ฉ ๐‘‚ช ๐‘‚ซ ๐‘‚ฌ ๐‘‚ญ ๐‘‚ฎ ๐‘‚ฏ
U+110Bx ๐‘‚ฐ ๐‘‚ฑ ๐‘‚ฒ ๐‘‚ณ ๐‘‚ด ๐‘‚ต ๐‘‚ถ ๐‘‚ท ๐‘‚ธ ๐‘‚น ๐‘‚บ ๐‘‚ป ๐‘‚ผ  ๐‘‚ฝ  ๐‘‚พ ๐‘‚ฟ
U+110Cx ๐‘ƒ€ ๐‘ƒ  ๐‘ƒ 
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 11.0
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 Kaithi block:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
5.2U+11080..110C166L2/05-343Pandey, Anshuman (2005-10-25), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
L2/05-368N3014Everson, Michael (2005-11-06), Towards an encoding of the Kaithi script
L2/07-199Pandey, Anshuman (2007-05-21), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in Plane 1
L2/07-418N3389Pandey, Anshuman (2007-12-13), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/08-156N3438Anderson, Deborah; Pandey, Anshuman (2008-04-11), Request for removal of digits from Kaithi proposal
L2/08-194N3389Pandey, Anshuman (2008-05-06), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/08-370N3544Anderson, Deborah (2008-10-15), Proposal to add three Kaithi punctuation marks
L2/08-400Anderson, Deborah (2008-10-29), Information on U+110BD KAITHI NUMBER SIGN
L2/09-070Pandey, Anshuman; Anderson, Deborah (2009-02-01), Comments on Kaithi Punctuation Marks and FPDAM 6
L2/09-071N3520RAnderson, Deborah (2009-02-02), Details on Kaithi punctuation (based on N3389)
L2/09-089N3574Pandey, Anshuman (2009-02-10), Proposal to Encode Section Marks for Kaithi in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/09-270RAnderson, Deborah (2009-08-05), Kaithi Decomposition Questions for Unicode 5.2
11.0U+110CD1L2/16-097RYang, Benjamin (2016-04-29), Proposal to encode Kaithi Number Sign Above
L2/16-156Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurenศ›iu (2016-05-06), "10. Kaithi", Recommendations to UTC #147 May 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 2016-07-09.
  2. โ†‘ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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