Brahmi (Unicode block)

Brahmi
Range	U+11000..U+1107F (128 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Brahmi
Assigned	109 code points
Unused	19 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.0 (2010)	108 (+108)
7.0 (2014)	109 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note:

Brahmi is a Unicode block containing characters written in India from the 3rd century BCE through the first millennium CE. It is the predecessor to all modern Indic scripts.

Brahmi[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

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U+1100x

𑀀

𑀁

𑀂

𑀃

𑀄

𑀅

𑀆

𑀇

𑀈

𑀉

𑀊

𑀋

𑀌

𑀍

𑀎

𑀏

U+1101x

𑀐

𑀑

𑀒

𑀓

𑀔

𑀕

𑀖

𑀗

𑀘

𑀙

𑀚

𑀛

𑀜

𑀝

𑀞

𑀟

U+1102x

𑀠

𑀡

𑀢

𑀣

𑀤

𑀥

𑀦

𑀧

𑀨

𑀩

𑀪

𑀫

𑀬

𑀭

𑀮

𑀯

U+1103x

𑀰

𑀱

𑀲

𑀳

𑀴

𑀵

𑀶

𑀷

𑀸

𑀹

𑀺

𑀻

𑀼

𑀽

𑀾

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U+1104x

𑁀

𑁁

𑁂

𑁃

𑁄

𑁅

𑁆

𑁇

𑁈

𑁉

𑁊

𑁋

𑁌

𑁍

U+1105x

𑁒

𑁓

𑁔

𑁕

𑁖

𑁗

𑁘

𑁙

𑁚

𑁛

𑁜

𑁝

𑁞

𑁟

U+1106x

𑁠

𑁡

𑁢

𑁣

𑁤

𑁥

𑁦

𑁧

𑁨

𑁩

𑁪

𑁫

𑁬

𑁭

𑁮

𑁯

U+1107x

𑁰

𑁱

𑁲

𑁳

𑁴

𑁵

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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 Brahmi block:

Version	Final code points	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
6.0	U+11000..1104D, 11052..1106F	108	L2/98-032	N1685	Everson, Michael (1998-01-18), Proposal to encode Brahmi in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/02-397		Baums, Stefan; Glass, Andrew (2002-11-02), Note for the UTC on the encoding of Brahmi in Unicode
			L2/03-249R		Baums, Stefan; Glass, Andrew (2003-07-27), Proposal for the Encoding of Brahmi in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/08-277R	N3490R	Everson, Michael; Glass, Andrew; Baums, Stefan (2007-08-14), Progressing the encoding of Brahmi in the SMP of the UCS
			L2/07-342	N3491	Baums, Stefan; Glass, Andrew (2007-10-09), Proposal for the encoding of Brāhmī in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/07-406		Glass, Andrew; Baums, Stefan (2007-10-31), Scripts on Roadmap covered by Brahmi encoding (L2/07-342)
			L2/12-020		Sharma, Shriramana (2012-01-12), Special rendering of some jihvamuliya/upadhmaniya characters
			L2/14-066		Sharma, Shriramana (2014-02-07), Representation of the Brahmi and Kannada Jihvamuliya/Upadhmaniya Characters in the Code Charts
			L2/16-343		A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-11-05), Request to change the glyphs of Brahmi vowel signs Vocalic R and Vocalic RR
			L2/16-321R		A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-12-23), Request to change the glyph of 11008 BRAHMI LETTER II
			L2/17-037		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Hai, Liang; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "3. Brahmi", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
			L2/17-224		McGowan, Rick (2017-07-25), "Dotted box for Brahmi/Kannada fricative characters", Comments on Public Review Issues (May 01 - July 25, 2017)
			L2/17-362		Moore, Lisa (2017-11-08), "153-A92", UTC #153 Minutes
7.0	U+1107F	1	L2/10-340		Sharma, Shriramana (2010-09-14), Using ZWJ in the encoded representation of Brahmi numbers
			L2/11-357R	N4166	Glass, Andrew; Sharma, Shriramana (2011-11-02), Proposal to encode 1107F Brahmi Number Joiner