Gurmukhi (Unicode block)

Gurmukhi
Range	U+0A00..U+0A7F (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Gurmukhi
Major alphabets	Punjabi
Assigned	80 code points
Unused	48 reserved code points
Source standards	ISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)	74 (+74)
1.1 (1993)	75 (+1)
4.0 (2003)	77 (+2)
5.1 (2008)	79 (+2)
11.0 (2018)	80 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note:

Graphical representation of the Gurmukhi Unicode block

Gurmukhi is a Unicode block containing characters for the Punjabi language, in the Gurmukhi script. 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:

Version	Final code points	Count	UTC ID	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.0.0	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	UTC/1991-056			Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam
			UTC/1991-057			Whistler, Ken, Indic names list
			UTC/1991-048B			Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III. L. Walk In proposals", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
				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
				L2/06-008R2		Moore, Lisa (2006-02-13), "C.8", UTC #106 Minutes
				L2/20-055		Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-01-16), Proposed sequences for composition exclusions
				L2/20-015R		Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "B.13.1.1 Proposed sequences for composition exclusions", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162
1.1	U+0A4D	1				(to be determined)
4.0	U+0A01, 0A03	2		L2/01-431R		McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R
				L2/01-405R		Moore, Lisa (2001-12-12), "Consensus 89-C19", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Mountain View, November 6-9, 2001, Accept the twelve Indic characters with names and coding positions as documented in L2/01-431R
				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
5.1	U+0A51	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
				L2/05-180		Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), "Gurmukhi (C.6)", UTC #104 Minutes
				L2/05-344		Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2005-10-27), Proposed changes to Gurmukhi 3
				L2/05-279		Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "C.14", UTC #105 Minutes
				L2/05-384	N3021	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
				L2/06-008R2		Moore, Lisa (2006-02-13), "B.11.5, C.8", UTC #106 Minutes
					N3103 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "M48.25a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27
	U+0A75	1		L2/06-008R2		Moore, Lisa (2006-02-13), "C.8", UTC #106 Minutes
				L2/06-037R	N3073	Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2006-04-07), Proposal to encode Gurmukhi Sign Yakash
					N3103 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "M48.25b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27
				L2/16-294		Singh, Sarabveer (2016-10-27), Changes to Gurmukhi 10
				L2/16-302		Sharma, Shriramana (2016-10-28), Feedback on L2/16-294 on Gurmukhi
				L2/16-327		McGowan, Rick (2016-11-07), "Feedback on L2/16-294 (Gurmukhi)", Comments on Public Review Issues (July 27 - Nov 7, 2016)
				L2/16-342		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-11-07), "4", Recommendations to UTC #149 November 2016 on Script Proposals
				L2/16-325		Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "D.4 (later rescinded)", UTC #149 Minutes
				L2/16-380		Singh, Manvir (2016-12-09), Feedback on L2/16-294
				L2/16-384		Singh, Sarabveer (2016-12-13), Feedback on L2/16-380
				L2/17-037		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "5. Gurmukhi", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
				L2/17-016		Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "Consensus 150-C13", UTC #150 Minutes, Retain the current glyph in the code charts for Yakash, U+0A75, rescinding the decision documented under D.4.1 in the UTC #149 minutes.
11.0	U+0A76	1		L2/16-209R		A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-07-25), Proposal to Encode an Abbreviation Sign for Gurmukhi
				L2/16-203		Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "D.9", UTC #148 Minutes
					N4873R (pdf, doc)	"M65.08f", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16