| Meroitic Cursive | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+109A0..U+109FF (96 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Meroitic Cursive |
| Major alphabets | Meroitic |
| Assigned | 90 code points |
| Unused | 6 reserved code points |
| Unicode Version History | |
| 6.1 (2012) | 26 (+26) |
| 8.0 (2015) | 90 (+64) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: 12 | |
Meroitic Cursive is a Unicode block containing demotic-style characters for writing the Meroitic language.3
| Meroitic Cursive[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+109Ax | 𐦠 | 𐦡 | 𐦢 | 𐦣 | 𐦤 | 𐦥 | 𐦦 | 𐦧 | 𐦨 | 𐦩 | 𐦪 | 𐦫 | 𐦬 | 𐦭 | 𐦮 | 𐦯 |
| U+109Bx | 𐦰 | 𐦱 | 𐦲 | 𐦳 | 𐦴 | 𐦵 | 𐦶 | 𐦷 | 𐦼 | 𐦽 | 𐦾 | 𐦿 | ||||
| U+109Cx | 𐧀 | 𐧁 | 𐧂 | 𐧃 | 𐧄 | 𐧅 | 𐧆 | 𐧇 | 𐧈 | 𐧉 | 𐧊 | 𐧋 | 𐧌 | 𐧍 | 𐧎 | 𐧏 |
| U+109Dx | 𐧒 | 𐧓 | 𐧔 | 𐧕 | 𐧖 | 𐧗 | 𐧘 | 𐧙 | 𐧚 | 𐧛 | 𐧜 | 𐧝 | 𐧞 | 𐧟 | ||
| U+109Ex | 𐧠 | 𐧡 | 𐧢 | 𐧣 | 𐧤 | 𐧥 | 𐧦 | 𐧧 | 𐧨 | 𐧩 | 𐧪 | 𐧫 | 𐧬 | 𐧭 | 𐧮 | 𐧯 |
| U+109Fx | 𐧰 | 𐧱 | 𐧲 | 𐧳 | 𐧴 | 𐧵 | 𐧶 | 𐧷 | 𐧸 | 𐧹 | 𐧺 | 𐧻 | 𐧼 | 𐧽 | 𐧾 | 𐧿 |
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Meroitic Cursive block:
| Version | Final code pointsa | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.1 | U+109A0..109B7, 109BE..109BF | 26 | L2/97-268 | N1638 | Everson, Michael (1997-09-18), Proposal to encode Meroitic in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646-2 |
| L2/98-070 | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, "3.A.4.b", Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998 | ||||
| L2/98-286 | N1703 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20 | |||
| L2/99-222 | N2098 | Wolf, Pawel (1999-07-13), Report on the standardization of a Meroitic sign list for Unicode | |||
| N2134 | Everson, Michael (1999-10-02), Response to comments on the question of encoding Meroitic in the UCS (N2098) | ||||
| L2/08-269 | N3484 | Everson, Michael (2008-08-04), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Meroitic script in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/09-188R2 | N3646R2 | Everson, Michael (2009-05-13), Proposal for encoding the Meroitic script in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/09-250 | N3665 | Everson, Michael (2009-07-29), Proposal for encoding the Meroitic Hieroglyphic and the Meroitic Cursive scripts in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/09-225R | Moore, Lisa (2009-08-17), "C.6", UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes | ||||
| N3703 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.25", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30 | ||||
| 8.0 | U+109BC..109BD, 109C0..109CF, 109D2..109FFb | 64 | L2/11-237 | N4098 | Suignard, Michel (2011-06-06), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4168 (ISO/IEC FCD 10646 3rd Ed., Information Technology – Universal Coded Character Set (UCS)) |
| N4103 | "T3. Row 109A: Meroitic Cursive", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
| L2/12-206 | N4276 | Everson, Michael (2012-06-06), Proposal for encoding Meroitic numbers in the SMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/12-343R2 | Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "C.19", UTC #133 Minutes | ||||
| N4353 (pdf, doc) | "M60.16", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23 | ||||
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References
References
- "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- 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.