Kaithi (Unicode block)

Kaithi
Kaithi
Range	U+11080..U+110CF; (80 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Kaithi
Major alphabets	Bhojpuri; Magahi; Awadhi; Maithili; Urdu
Assigned	66 code points
Unused	14 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2 (2009)	66 (+66)
Unicode documentation
	Code chart ∣ Web page
	Note:

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)
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
U+1108x	𑂀	𑂁	𑂂	𑂃	𑂄	𑂅	𑂆	𑂇	𑂈	𑂉	𑂊	𑂋	𑂌	𑂍	𑂎	𑂏
U+1109x	𑂐	𑂑	𑂒	𑂓	𑂔	𑂕	𑂖	𑂗	𑂘	𑂙	𑂚	𑂛	𑂜	𑂝	𑂞	𑂟
U+110Ax	𑂠	𑂡	𑂢	𑂣	𑂤	𑂥	𑂦	𑂧	𑂨	𑂩	𑂪	𑂫	𑂬	𑂭	𑂮	𑂯
U+110Bx	𑂰	𑂱	𑂲	𑂳	𑂴	𑂵	𑂶	𑂷	𑂸	𑂹	𑂺	𑂻	𑂼	𑂽	𑂾	𑂿
U+110Cx	𑃀	𑃁	𑃂											𑃍
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 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:

Version	Final code points^[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
5.2	U+11080..110C1	66	L2/05-343		Pandey, Anshuman (2005-10-25), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/05-368	N3014	Everson, Michael (2005-11-06), Towards an encoding of the Kaithi script
			L2/07-199		Pandey, Anshuman (2007-05-21), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in Plane 1
			L2/07-418	N3389	Pandey, Anshuman (2007-12-13), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/08-156	N3438	Anderson, Deborah; Pandey, Anshuman (2008-04-11), Request for removal of digits from Kaithi proposal
			L2/08-194	N3389	Pandey, Anshuman (2008-05-06), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/08-370	N3544	Anderson, Deborah (2008-10-15), Proposal to add three Kaithi punctuation marks
			L2/08-400		Anderson, Deborah (2008-10-29), Information on U+110BD KAITHI NUMBER SIGN
			L2/09-070		Pandey, Anshuman; Anderson, Deborah (2009-02-01), Comments on Kaithi Punctuation Marks and FPDAM 6
			L2/09-071	N3520R	Anderson, Deborah (2009-02-02), Details on Kaithi punctuation (based on N3389)
			L2/09-089	N3574	Pandey, Anshuman (2009-02-10), Proposal to Encode Section Marks for Kaithi in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/09-270R		Anderson, Deborah (2009-08-05), Kaithi Decomposition Questions for Unicode 5.2
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

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

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

[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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