Malayalam (Unicode block)

Malayalam
Range	U+0D00..U+0D7F; (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Malayalam
Major alphabets	Malayalam
Assigned	117 code points
Unused	11 reserved code points
Source standards	ISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0	78 (+78)
5.1	95 (+17)
6.0	98 (+3)
7.0	99 (+1)
8.0	100 (+1)
9.0	114 (+14)
10.0	117 (+3)
	Note: [1][2]

Malayalam is a Unicode block containing characters for the Malayalam language. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0D02..U+0D4D were a direct copy of the Malayalam characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Block

Malayalam^[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+0D0x	ഀ	ഁ	ം	ഃ		അ	ആ	ഇ	ഈ	ഉ	ഊ	ഋ	ഌ		എ	ഏ
U+0D1x	ഐ		ഒ	ഓ	ഔ	ക	ഖ	ഗ	ഘ	ങ	ച	ഛ	ജ	ഝ	ഞ	ട
U+0D2x	ഠ	ഡ	ഢ	ണ	ത	ഥ	ദ	ധ	ന	ഩ	പ	ഫ	ബ	ഭ	മ	യ
U+0D3x	ര	റ	ല	ള	ഴ	വ	ശ	ഷ	സ	ഹ	ഺ	഻	഼	ഽ	ാ	ി
U+0D4x	ീ	ു	ൂ	ൃ	ൄ		െ	േ	ൈ		ൊ	ോ	ൌ	്	ൎ	൏
U+0D5x					ൔ	ൕ	ൖ	ൗ	൘	൙	൚	൛	൜	൝	൞	ൟ
U+0D6x	ൠ	ൡ	ൢ	ൣ			൦	൧	൨	൩	൪	൫	൬	൭	൮	൯
U+0D7x	൰	൱	൲	൳	൴	൵	൶	൷	൸	൹	ൺ	ൻ	ർ	ൽ	ൾ	ൿ
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 Malayalam block:

Version	Final code points^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.0.0	U+0D02..0D03, 0D05..0D0C, 0D0E..0D10, 0D12..0D28, 0D2A..0D39, 0D3E..0D43, 0D46..0D48, 0D4A..0D4D, 0D57, 0D60..0D61, 0D66..0D6F	78			(to be determined)
			L2/01-303		Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"
			L2/01-304		Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02
			L2/01-305		McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
			L2/01-430R		McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, “Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0”
5.1	U+0D3D, 0D44, 0D62, 0D79	4	L2/05-309R		Chitrajakumar, R. (2005-10-24), Proposal for addition of characters to Malayalam Block
			L2/06-166		Ganesan, Naga (2006-05-08), MALAYALAM SIGN AVAGRAHA and MALAYALAM DAY SIGN in Unicode (0D00-0D7F)
			L2/09-378		Lata, Swaran (2009-10-27), Encoding of Dot Reph of Malyalam and Change in glyph for Avagraha in Malyalam
			L2/15-174		A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2015-07-16), Request to change the representative glyph of MALAYALAM VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC RR
			L2/15-204		Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "4. Malayalam", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
	U+0D63	1	L2/07-095R	N3235R	Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter; Angot, Michel; Chandrashekar, R.; Hyman, Malcolm; Rosenfield, Susan; Sastry, B. V. Venkatakrishna; Witzel, Michael (2007-04-13), Proposal to encode characters for Vedic Sanskrit in the BMP of the UCS
	U+0D63	1	L2/07-196	N3272	Everson, Michael (2007-05-25), Proposal to encode four characters for Oriya and Malayalam
	U+0D70..0D75	6	L2/05-087		Ganesan, Naga (2005-04-11), Correcting Malayalam Digit Zero glyph and adding Malayalam numerics
			L2/05-162		McGowan, Rick (2005-06-07), Public Review Issue #71, Questions on Malayalam Digits
			L2/05-164		Sulochana, K. G. (2005-07-08), Evidence for the correct symbols used for zero,10,100,1000 and fractions in Malayalam
			L2/05-173		Johny, Cibu C. (2005-07-21), Malayalam related topics (PRI #71)
			L2/05-175		Sreekumar, P. (2005-07-29), Proposal to includes Malayalam Numbers as distinct characters
			L2/05-201		McGowan, Rick (2005-08-04), Public Review Issue #71: Questions on Malayalam Digits [duplicate of L2/05-162]
			L2/05-295	N2970	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2005-08-23), Proposal to add 3 Malayalam Numbers 10, 100, 1000 and 3 Fraction symbols 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4
			L2/05-249		Proposal to include Malayalam Symbols, 2005-09-06
	U+0D7A..0D7F	6	L2/03-102		Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
			L2/03-101.6		Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Malayalam document], 2003-03-04
			L2/03-113		Everson, Michael (2003-03-05), Conjuncts: making sure we are right
			L2/03-309		Rajkumar, S. (2003-09-09), Unicode Malayalam rendering page
			L2/04-279		Constable, Peter (2004-06-30), Proposal on Clarification and Consolidation of the Function of ZERO WIDTH JOINER in Indic Scripts
			L2/04-328		Leca, Antoine (2004-08-04), Response to Public Review Issue #37
			L2/04-418		Muller, Eric (2004-11-18), "Malayalam chillus", Report of the Indic ad-hoc
			L2/04-361		Moore, Lisa (2004-11-23), "101-A104", UTC #101 Minutes
			L2/05-081		Pai, Mahesh T. (2005-03-17), Chilling effects of the Chillu: Encoding Problems in Malayalam (background doc)
			L2/05-085		Johny, Cibu C. (2005-05-02), Encoding of Chillu forms in Malayalam (PRI #66 feedback)
			L2/05-112		McGowan, Rick (2005-05-03), Public Review Issue #66, Encoding of chillu forms in Malayalam (background doc)
			L2/05-148		Muller, Eric (2005-05-11), Comments on PRI 66: Mayalam cillaksarams
			L2/05-154		Constable, Peter (2005-05-13), Malayalam chillu ka
			L2/05-210		Chitrajakumar, R.; Gangadharan, N. (2005-08-05), Chandrakkala. Samvruthokaram. Chillaksharam, from the perspective of Malayalam Collation
			L2/05-213		Chitrajakumar, R.; Gangadharan, N. (2005-08-07), Samvruthokaram and Chandrakkala
			L2/05-214		Chitrajakumar, R.; Gangadharan, N. (2005-08-07), Chillaksharam of Malayalam Language
			L2/05-236		Malayalam Language -- Inclusion of Chillu characters, 2005-08-23
			L2/05-246		Vikas, Om (2005-08-31), Letter to Mark Davis from Om Vikas re Malayalam Chillus
			L2/05-307		Sebastian, Rajeev J.; Vedi, Rachana Akshara (2005-10-21), ZWJ/ZWNJ behavior under Indic scripts with special reference to chillu, conjuncts, etc in Malayalam
			L2/05-308		Chitrajakumar, R.; Gangadharan, N.; Vedi, Rachana Akshara (2005-10-21), Problems of Malayalam Encoding in the Indic context (Rachana's response to Malayalam encoding debate)
			L2/05-310		Chitrajakumar, R. (2005-10-24), Rachana Documents (cover letter for L2/05-307, 308, 309)
			L2/05-334		Johny, Cibu C. (2005-10-25), Critical review of Rachana (L2/05-210) and other arguments to encode Malayalam Chillus
			L2/05-354		Chitrajakumar, R.; Gangadharan, N. (2005-10-28), Chillu and Semivowel examples
			L2/05-372		Pai, Mahesh T. (2005-11-17), Chillus, Samvrithòkaram and Chandrakkala - A Problem Which is Not
			L2/06-134		Ganesan, Naga (2006-04-17), Dravidian script “markers” code-points in Unicode
			L2/06-189		The Chillu Issue, 2006-05-12
			L2/06-190		Annexure 1 - Chillu Evidence, 2 pages, 2006-05-12
			L2/06-207	N3126	Muller, Eric (2006-05-14), Malayalam Chillaksarams
			L2/06-218		Chitrajakumar, R. (2006-05-19), Malayalam Chillu Encoding (e-mail to McGowan, Muller, Umamaheswaran, et al)
			L2/06-247		Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-07-27), Proposal to revise names for Malayalam chillus
			L2/06-261		Ganesan, Naga (2006-07-31), Proposal to encode Malayalam Consonant Sign Cillu
			L2/06-270		Ganesan, Naga (2006-07-31), Cillaksharam R and a comment on Cillu letter names (L2/06-247)
			L2/06-296		Achuthanandan, V. S. (2006-08-10), Letter to Mark Davis re Malayalam encoding
			L2/06-396		Chitrajakumar, R.; et al. (2006-11-20), Chillu encoding is wrong
			L2/07-034		Sam, N. (2007-01-18), Workshop - The Problems in Unicode Encoding of Malayalam
			L2/07-031		Achuthanandan, V. S. (2007-01-30), Letter from Chief Minister Achuthanandan (Kerala) to Mark Davis re Malayalam Chillu encoding
			L2/07-035		Sebastian, Rajeev J.; Vedi, Rachana Akshara (2007-01-30), Atomic chillus causes spoofing
			L2/07-036		Johny, Cibu C. (2007-01-30), Malayalam - Comparison of Chillu Encoding Proposals
			L2/07-038		Johny, Cibu C. (2007-01-30), Malayalam - Representation of Vowellessness
			L2/07-041		Johny, Cibu C. (2007-01-30), Malayalam - PR 96 feedback
			L2/07-057		Sam, N. (2007-02-02), Report of the Workshop on Problems of Unicode encoding of Malayalam conducted at University of Kerala on January 24-25, 2007
			L2/07-062		Sebastian, Rajeev J. (2007-02-05), Letter from Rajeev J Sebasian to Mark Davis re Malayalam Encoding
			L2/07-061		Sebastian, Rajeev J. (2007-02-06), Notes on PRI #96 Feedback
			L2/07-064		Mohanan, K. P. (2007-02-06), Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Chillus in Malayalam
			L2/07-065		Mangalat, Mahesh (2007-02-06), Atomic Chillu Encoding Issue
			L2/07-066		Lata, Swaran (2007-02-07), Letter from Swaran Lata supporting Chillu Encoding
			L2/07-090		Johny, Cibu C. (2007-02-22), Visuals and corresponding storage representations of the edge cases in Malayalam
			L2/07-129		Johny, Cibu (2007-04-21), Changes related to Malayalam in Unicode 5.1.0 from 5.0
			L2/07-279		Ganesan, Naga (2007-08-13), Joiners (ZWJ/ZWNJ) with semantic content for words in Indian subcontinent languages
L2/07-393				Johny, Cibu (2007-10-18), Correction to L2/07-090, L2/07-129 on how Malayalam Chillus used in boundary cases
L2/07-402				Johny, Cibu (2007-10-19), Malayalam Chillus in grapheme clusters
L2/08-038				A, Praveen; Aravind, Anivar; Thottingal, Santhosh; M, Baiju (2008-01-28), Atomic chillu's are Unacceptable
L2/08-040				Ganesan, Naga (2008-01-28), Comments on L2/07-402: Malayalam Chillus in Grapheme clusters
L2/08-041				Ganesan, Naga (2008-01-28), Malayalam Reph with ZWJ joiner
L2/08-076				McGowan, Rick (2008-01-29), Malayalam Feedback from the Online Reporting Form
L2/13-036				Pournader, Roozbeh; Johny, Cibu (2013-01-29), Old and New Chillus in Malayalam and implications for Sinhala
6.0	U+0D29, 0D3A	2	L2/12-021	N4216	Sharma, Shriramana (2002-01-12), Request to change the representative glyph of 0D3A MALAYALAM LETTER TTTA
			L2/08-325	N3494	Everson, Michael (2007-08-14), Proposal to add two characters for Malayalam to the BMP
			L2/07-283	N3295	Everson, Michael (2007-08-17), Proposal to add three characters for Malayalam to the BMP
			L2/09-341		Sharma, Shriramana (2009-10-06), Request for annotations to be added to Malayalam NNNA and TTTA
	U+0D4E^{[lower-alpha 2]}	1	L2/07-037		Johny, Cibu C. (2007-01-30), Malayalam - Dot Reph
			L2/08-069		Sulochana, K. G. (2008-01-28), Comments on the Malayalam related text in Unicode 5.1.0
			L2/08-076		McGowan, Rick (2008-01-29), Malayalam Feedback from the Online Reporting Form
			L2/08-020		Johny, Cibu; Nair, Umesh (2008-01-30), Malayalam: Comparison of Dot-Reph Proposals in 5.1
			L2/08-195		Ganesan, Naga (2008-05-02), Dot-Reph and Subscript YA/VA Sequences in Malayalam Unicode
			L2/08-306		Johny, Cibu (2008-08-08), Malayalam: Comparison of Dot-Reph Proposals
			L2/09-056		Johny, Cibu (2008-08-08), Malayalam: Comparison of Dot-Reph Proposals (Re: L2/08-411)
			L2/09-072		Jain, Manoj (2009-02-02), GOI inputs on Representation of Malayalam Dot Reph
			L2/09-178		Johny, Cibu (2009-05-01), Proposal to encode Malayalam Dot-Reph character
			L2/09-245R	N3676	Johny, Cibu (2009-05-01), Proposal to encode Malayalam Dot-Reph character
			L2/09-196		Ganesan, Naga (2009-05-04), Comment on L2/09-178: Malayalam Dot-Reph
			L2/09-203		Ganesan, Naga (2009-05-08), Deprecated Telugu and Malayalam reph sequences
			L2/09-378		Lata, Swaran (2009-10-27), Encoding of Dot Reph of Malyalam and Change in glyph for Avagraha in Malyalam
			L2/12-106		Sharma, Shriramana (2012-03-17), "3. Malayalam", Request for editorial updates to various Indic scripts
			L2/12-164		Sharma, Shriramana (2012-05-02), "2. Malayalam", Further editorial updates for Indic
			L2/15-183R		Pournader, Roozbeh (2015-07-28), Candidate characters for Grapheme_Cluster_Break=Prepend
7.0	U+0D01	1	L2/10-392R2	N3964	Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-11), Request to encode South Indian CANDRABINDU-s
8.0	U+0D5F	1	L2/12-225	N4312	Sharma, Shriramana (2012-05-22), Proposal to encode 0D5F MALAYALAM LETTER ARCHAIC II
			L2/12-233		Rajan, Vinodh (2012-07-17), Comments on Encoding "Duplicate" Indic Characters
			L2/12-273		Ganesan, Naga (2012-07-25), Comment on archaic Malayalam glyph II encoding & Grantha writing of Dravidian languages
9.0	U+0D4F	1	L2/14-016	N4538	Johny, Cibu (2014-01-16), Proposal to encode MALAYALAM SIGN PARA
	U+0D4F	1	L2/14-135		Sharma, Shriramana (2014-05-07), Request to move the Malayalam Sign Para from 0D65 to 0D4F
	U+0D54	1	L2/14-013	N4540	Johny, Cibu (2014-01-08), Proposal to encode MALAYALAM LETTER CHILLU M
	U+0D55	1	L2/06-337		Ganesan, Naga (2006-10-20), Malayalam cillaksharam YA
			L2/07-242		Johny, Cibu (2007-07-31), Proposal to encode Malayalam Chillu YA in the UCS
			L2/07-283	N3295	Everson, Michael (2007-08-17), Proposal to add three characters for Malayalam to the BMP
			L2/14-017	N4539	Johny, Cibu (2014-12-26), Proposal to encode MALAYALAM LETTER CHILLU Y
	U+0D56	1	L2/13-063R	N4428	Johny, Cibu (2013-05-15), Proposal to encode MALAYALAM LETTER CHILLU LLL
	U+0D58..0D5E, 0D76..0D78	10	L2/05-249		Proposal to include Malayalam Symbols, 2005-09-06
			L2/06-260		Ganesan, Naga (2006-07-31), Malayalam Fractions and Letter-Numerals
			L2/13-051R	N4429	Sharma, Shriramana (2013-04-25), Proposal to encode Malayalam minor fractions
			L2/13-076		Sharma, Shriramana (2013-04-25), Questions re the Malayalam fractions proposal
			L2/13-124		Kumar, Rajendra (2013-05-10), Letter from Gov't of India to Lisa Moore re recent documents
10.0	U+0D00	1	L2/14-003		Sharma, Shriramana (2013-12-30), Proposal to encode 0D00 MALAYALAM SIGN COMBINING ANUSVARA ABOVE
			L2/14-029		Johny, Cibu (2014-01-20), Feedback on Malayalam Anusvara Above Proposal
			L2/14-069		Sharma, Shriramana (2014-02-17), Evidence for considerable usage of the Malayalam anusvara above
			L2/14-292		Sharma, Shriramana (2014-10-30), Clarifications re the proposed 0D00 MALAYALAM SIGN COMBINING ANUSVARA ABOVE
			L2/15-011		Ganesan, Naga (2015-01-26), Comment on L2/14-003: Any need for Combining Anusvara Sign Above in Malayalam Block?
	U+0D3B	1	L2/14-015		Johny, Cibu (2015-01-19), Proposal to encode MALAYALAM SIGN VERTICAL BAR VIRAMA
	U+0D3B	1	L2/15-021		Ganesan, Naga (2015-01-27), Comment on L2/14-15R: Malayalam Sign Vertical Bar Virama (Chillu Virama Sign)
	U+0D3C	1	L2/14-014R		Johny, Cibu (2015-01-19), Proposal to encode MALAYALAM SIGN CIRCULAR VIRAMA
	U+0D3C	1	L2/15-024		Ganesan, Naga (2015-01-27), Comment on Malayalam circular Virama sign
↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ↑ See also L2/07-090, L2/07-129, L2/07-393, L2/07-402, and L2/08-041

References

↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.

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[final-3] Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

[alsoU0D4E-4] See also L2/07-090, L2/07-129, L2/07-393, L2/07-402, and L2/08-041

[1] "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.

[2] "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.

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Malayalam
Range	U+0D00..U+0D7F (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Malayalam
Major alphabets	Malayalam
Assigned	117 code points
Unused	11 reserved code points
Source standards	ISCII
Unicode version history

1.0.0	78 (+78)
5.1	95 (+17)
6.0	98 (+3)
7.0	99 (+1)
8.0	100 (+1)
9.0	114 (+14)
10.0	117 (+3)

Note: ^[1]^[2]