Tamil (Unicode block)
| Tamil | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+0B80..U+0BFF (128 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Tamil |
| Major alphabets | Tamil Badaga Saurashtra |
| Assigned | 72 code points |
| Unused | 56 reserved code points |
| Source standards | ISCII |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 (1991) | 61 (+61) |
| 4.0 (2003) | 69 (+8) |
| 4.1 (2005) | 71 (+2) |
| 5.1 (2008) | 72 (+1) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Tamil is a Unicode block My name is nirusan containing characters for the Tamil, Badaga, and Saurashtra languages of Tamil Nadu India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Malaysia. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0B02..U+0BCD were a direct copy of the Tamil characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.
| Tamil[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+0B8x | ஂ | ஃ | அ | ஆ | இ | ஈ | உ | ஊ | எ | ஏ | ||||||
| U+0B9x | ஐ | ஒ | ஓ | ஔ | க | ங | ச | ஜ | ஞ | ட | ||||||
| U+0BAx | ண | த | ந | ன | ப | ம | ய | |||||||||
| U+0BBx | ர | ற | ல | ள | ழ | வ | ஶ | ஷ | ஸ | ஹ | ா | ி | ||||
| U+0BCx | ீ | ு | ூ | ெ | ே | ை | ொ | ோ | ௌ | ் | ||||||
| U+0BDx | ௐ | ௗ | ||||||||||||||
| U+0BEx | ௦ | ௧ | ௨ | ௩ | ௪ | ௫ | ௬ | ௭ | ௮ | ௯ | ||||||
| U+0BFx | ௰ | ௱ | ௲ | ௳ | ௴ | ௵ | ௶ | ௷ | ௸ | ௹ | ௺ | |||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
see also
References
- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
- ^ The Unicode Standard Version 1.0, Volume 1. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. 1990–1991. ISBN 0-201-56788-1.
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