Phoenician_(Unicode_block)

Phoenician (Unicode block)

Phoenician (Unicode block)

Unicode character block


Phoenician is a Unicode block containing characters used across the Mediterranean world from the 12th century BCE to the 3rd century CE. The Phoenician alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in July 2006 with the release of version 5.0. An alternative proposal to handle it as a font variation of Hebrew was turned down. (See PDF[dead link] summary.)

Quick Facts Range, Plane ...

The Unicode block for Phoenician is U+10900–U+1091F. It is intended for the representation of text in Paleo-Hebrew, Archaic Phoenician, Phoenician, Early Aramaic, Late Phoenician cursive, Phoenician papyri, Siloam Hebrew, Hebrew seals, Ammonite, Moabite and Punic.[3]

The letters are encoded U+10900 π€€β€Ž aleph through to U+10915 π€•β€Ž taw, U+10916 π€–β€Ž, U+10917 π€—β€Ž, U+10918 π€˜β€Ž and U+10919 π€™β€Ž encode the numerals 1, 10, 20, and 100, respectively, and U+1091F π€Ÿβ€Ž is the word separator.

Characters

Phoenician[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+1090x π€€β€Ž π€β€Ž π€‚β€Ž π€ƒβ€Ž π€„β€Ž π€…β€Ž π€†β€Ž π€‡β€Ž π€ˆβ€Ž π€‰β€Ž π€Šβ€Ž π€‹β€Ž π€Œβ€Ž π€β€Ž π€Žβ€Ž π€β€Ž
U+1091x π€β€Ž π€‘β€Ž π€’β€Ž π€“β€Ž π€”β€Ž π€•β€Ž π€–β€Ž π€—β€Ž π€˜β€Ž π€™β€Ž π€šβ€Ž π€›β€Ž π€Ÿβ€Ž
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
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 Phoenician block:

More information Version, Final code points ...

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. "Middle-East scripts II: Ancient Scripts" (PDF). The Unicode Standard: Version 13.0 – Core Specification. The Unicode Consortium. 2020. Retrieved 2021-01-28.

Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Phoenician_(Unicode_block), and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.