Phags-pa (Unicode block)

Phags-pa
Range U+A840..U+A87F
(64 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Phags Pa
Major alphabets Mongolian
Chinese
Assigned 56 code points
Unused 8 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.0 56 (+56)
Note: [1][2]

Phags-pa is a Unicode block containing characters from the 'Phags-pa script promulgated as a national script by Kublai Khan. It was used primarily in writing Mongolian and Chinese, although it was intended for the use of all languages of the Mongol Empire.

The block has six variation sequences defined for standardized variants.[3]

Block

Phags-pa[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+A84x ꡀ ꡁ ꡂ ꡃ ꡄ ꡅ ꡆ ꡇ ꡈ ꡉ ꡊ ꡋ ꡌ ꡍ ꡎ ꡏ
U+A85x ꡐ ꡑ ꡒ ꡓ ꡔ ꡕ ꡖ ꡗ ꡘ ꡙ ꡚ ꡛ ꡜ ꡝ ꡞ ꡟ
U+A86x ꡠ ꡡ ꡢ ꡣ ꡤ ꡥ ꡦ ꡧ ꡨ ꡩ ꡪ ꡫ ꡬ ꡭ ꡮ ꡯ
U+A87x ꡰ ꡱ ꡲ ꡳ ꡴ ꡵ ꡶ ꡷
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 11.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Note that four vowel letters have positional variants:

Positional Forms of I, U, E, and O
Character Isolate Initial Medial Final
U+A85E PHAGS-PA LETTER I ꡞ ꡞ‍ ‍ꡞ‍ ‍ꡞ
U+A85F PHAGS-PA LETTER U ꡟ ꡟ‍ ‍ꡟ‍ ‍ꡟ
U+A860 PHAGS-PA LETTER E ꡠ ꡠ‍ ‍ꡠ‍ ‍ꡠ
U+A861 PHAGS-PA LETTER O ꡡ ꡡ‍ ‍ꡡ‍ ‍ꡡ

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
5.0U+A840..A87756L2/00-055N2163Sato, T. K. (2000-01-06), Soyombo and Pagba (old Mongol scripts)
L2/03-224Baxter, William H. (2003-07-10), Email on 'Phags-pa
L2/03-246Quejingzhabu; West, Andrew (2003-08-12), Letter commenting on Phags-pa encoding
L2/03-269West, Andrew; Fynn, Christopher (2003-08-16), E-mail questions and answers on Phags-pa encoding
L2/03-229R3N2622West, Andrew (2003-09-18), Proposal to encode the Phags-pa script
L2/03-366N2666Principles on Encoding Phags-pa Script, 2003-10-20
L2/03-374West, Andrew (2003-10-22), Response to N2666 (Principles on Encoding Phags-pa Script)
N2912Constable, Peter (2004-01-22), Open Issues on Phags-pa Encoding
L2/04-085N2706Summary of Voting on ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 3696 : Project Subdivision Proposal for ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/Amendment 1, 2004-02-03
L2/04-112N2719West, Andrew (2004-03-10), Response to Comments on Phags-pa Proposal in N2706
L2/04-134N2745HPhags-pa script encoding, 2004-04-02
L2/04-174N2771West, Andrew (2004-06-01), Comments on Chinese-Mongolian joint proposal to encode the Hphags-pa script (N2475)
L2/04-275N2829Zhuang, Chen; Sen, Jia La; Ren, He Xi Ge Du; Tumurtogoo, Domi; Everson, Michael; Sekiguchi; Constable, Peter; Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2004-06-22), Consensus on the encoding of the Phags-pa script in the PDAM code chart
L2/04-414N2870Summary of the Revised User's Agreement Related to Phags-pa Script, 2004-10-25
L2/04-412N2869Proposal to Encode the Phags-Pa Script, 2004-11-17
L2/04-413N2869cCover letter to Updated proposal to encode the Phags-pa Script, 2004-11-17
L2/04-415N2871Some Problems on the Encoding of the Phags-pa Script, 2004-11-17
L2/05-036N2922Consensus on Encoding Phags-pa Script, 2005-01-25
L2/05-219N2964A User’s Agreement Related to Phags-pa Script, 2005-08-05
L2/05-255N2972West, Andrew (2005-08-17), Glyph Forms for PHAGS-PA LETTER YA and PHAGS-PA LETTER ALTERNATE YA
L2/05-257N2979West, Andrew (2005-09-01), Phags-pa Glyphs
L2/12-360Esfahbod, Behdad; Pournader, Roozbeh (2012-11-05), Mongolian and 'Phags-Pa Shaping
L2/12-343R2Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "B.14.5", UTC #133 Minutes
  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. ↑ "Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
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