Meroitic Hieroglyphs (Unicode block)

Meroitic Hieroglyphs
Range U+10980..U+1099F
(32 code points)
Plane SMP
Scripts Meroitic Hieroglyphs
Major alphabets Meroitic Egyptian
Assigned 32 code points
Unused 0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.1 32 (+32)
Note: [1][2]

Meroitic Hieroglyphs is a Unicode block formal hieroglyphic containing characters for writing Meroitic Egyptian.[3]

Meroitic Hieroglyphs[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
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U+1098x 𐦀 𐦁 𐦂 𐦃 𐦄 𐦅 𐦆 𐦇 𐦈 𐦉 𐦊 𐦋 𐦌 𐦍 𐦎 𐦏
U+1099x 𐦐 𐦑 𐦒 𐦓 𐦔 𐦕 𐦖 𐦗 𐦘 𐦙 𐦚 𐦛 𐦜 𐦝 𐦞 𐦟
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 11.0

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Meroitic Hieroglyphs block:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
6.1U+10980..1099F32L2/97-268N1638Everson, Michael (1997-09-18), Proposal to encode Meroitic in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646-2
L2/99-222N2098Wolf, Pawel (1999-07-13), Report on the standardization of a Meroitic sign list for Unicode
N2134Everson, Michael (1999-10-02), Response to comments on the question of encoding Meroitic in the UCS (N2098)
L2/08-269N3484Everson, Michael (2008-08-04), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Meroitic script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/09-188R2N3646R2Everson, Michael (2009-05-13), Proposal for encoding the Meroitic script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/09-250N3665Everson, Michael (2009-07-29), Proposal for encoding the Meroitic Hieroglyphic and the Meroitic Cursive scripts in the SMP of the UCS
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  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.
  3. Everson, Michael (2009-07-29). "N3665: Proposal for encoding the Meroitic Hieroglyphic and the Meroitic Cursive scripts in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.
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