Devanagari Extended-A

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See also: Devanagari (Unicode block), Devanagari Extended (Unicode block), and Vedic Extensions (Unicode block)
Short description: Unicode character block
Devanagari Extended-A
RangeU+11B00..U+11B5F
(96 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsDevanagari
Unused96 reserved code points
Note: [1][2]
Graphical representation of the Devanagari Extended-A Unicode block

Devanagari Extended-A is a Unicode block containing characters for auspicious signs from Indian inscriptions and manuscripts from the 11th century onward.[3][4]

Block

Template:Unicode chart Devanagari Extended-A

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Devanagari Extended-A block:

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID Document
15.0 U+11B00..11B09 10 L2/21-102 Pandey, Anshuman (2021-05-21), Proposal for representing the Devanagari 'bhale mīṇḍu' 
L2/21-130 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-07-26), Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals 
L2/21-123 Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168 
L2/21-174 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-10-01), Recommendations to UTC #169 October 2021 on Script Proposals 
L2/21-167 Cummings, Craig (2022-01-27), Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting 169 
18.0 U+11B0A 1 L2/25-022 Mandal, Biswajit (2024-12-12), Proposal to encode the Devanagari letter Sindhi DDDA in Unicode 
L2/25-010 Kučera, Jan (2025-01-16), Recommendations to UTC #182 (January 2025) on Script Proposals 
L2/25-003 Leroy, Robin (2025-01-28), UTC #182 Minutes, "Provisionally assign one code point U+11B0A DEVANAGARI LETTER ALTERNATE DDDA ..." 
L2/25-226 UTC #185 Minutes, 2025-10-29, "UTC accepts for encoding in Unicode 18.0 ..." 
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. 
  2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. 
  3. ↑ Pandey, Anshuman (2021-05-21). "L2/21-102: Proposal for representing the Devanagari 'bhale mīṇḍu'". https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21102-devanagari-bhale-mindu.pdf. 
  4. ↑ The Unicode Standard. The Unicode Consortium. 2022. ISBN 978-1-936213-32-0. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch24.pdf. 



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