Gurmukhi (Unicode block)

Gurmukhi
Range	U+0A00..U+0A7F (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Gurmukhi
Major alphabets	Punjabi
Assigned	79 code points
Unused	49 reserved code points
Source standards	ISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)	74 (+74)
1.0.1 (1992)	75 (+1)
4.0 (2003)	77 (+2)
5.1 (2008)	79 (+2)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note:

Gurmukhi is a Unicode block containing characters for the Punjabi language, as it is written in India. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0A02..U+0A4C were a direct copy of the Gurmukhi characters A2-EC from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Block

Gurmukhi[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+0A0x

ਁ

ਂ

ਃ

ਅ

ਆ

ਇ

ਈ

ਉ

ਊ

ਏ

U+0A1x

ਐ

ਓ

ਔ

ਕ

ਖ

ਗ

ਘ

ਙ

ਚ

ਛ

ਜ

ਝ

ਞ

ਟ

U+0A2x

ਠ

ਡ

ਢ

ਣ

ਤ

ਥ

ਦ

ਧ

ਨ

ਪ

ਫ

ਬ

ਭ

ਮ

ਯ

U+0A3x

ਰ

ਲ

ਲ਼

ਵ

ਸ਼

ਸ

ਹ

਼

ਾ

ਿ

U+0A4x

ੀ

ੁ

ੂ

ੇ

ੈ

ੋ

ੌ

੍

U+0A5x

ੑ

ਖ਼

ਗ਼

ਜ਼

ੜ

ਫ਼

U+0A6x

੦

੧

੨

੩

੪

੫

੬

੭

੮

੯

U+0A7x

ੰ

ੱ

ੲ

ੳ

ੴ

ੵ

੶

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 Gurmukhi block:

Final code points	Count	Version	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
U+0A01, 0A03	2	4.0	L2/01-431R		McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R
			L2/02-117	N2425	McGowan, Rick (2002-03-21), Additional Characters for Indic Scripts
			L2/03-102		Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
			L2/03-101.4		Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Gurmukhi document], 2003-03-04
U+0A02, 0A05..0A0A, 0A0F..0A10, 0A13..0A28, 0A2A..0A30, 0A32..0A33, 0A35..0A36, 0A38..0A39, 0A3C, 0A3E..0A42, 0A47..0A48, 0A4B..0A4C, 0A59..0A5C, 0A5E, 0A66..0A74	74	1.0.0			(to be determined)
			L2/01-303		Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"
			L2/01-304		Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02
			L2/01-305		McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
			L2/01-430R		McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, “Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0”
			L2/05-371R		Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2005-11-30), Gurmukhi annotations
U+0A4D	1	1.0.1			(to be determined)
U+0A51	1	5.1	L2/05-088R		Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2005-04-21), Proposed Changes to Gurmukhi
			L2/05-167		Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2005-08-01), Proposed Changes to Gurmukhi 2
			L2/05-344		Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2005-10-27), Proposed changes to Gurmukhi 3
			L2/05-384		Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2005-12-18), Proposal to encode Gurmukhi 3
			L2/06-020		McGowan, Rick (2006-01-25), Public Review Issue #82: Representation of Gurmukhi Double Vowels
			L2/06-030		Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2006-01-27), "E", Proposed Changes to Gurmukhi 4
U+0A75	1	5.1	L2/06-037		Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2006-04-07), Proposal to encode Gurmukhi Sign Yakash