Zanabazar Square (Unicode block)

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Short description: Unicode block
Short description: Unicode character block
Zanabazar Square
RangeU+11A00..U+11A4F
(80 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsZanabazar Square
Assigned72 code points
Unused8 reserved code points
Unicode version history
10.072 (+72)
Note: [1][2]

Zanabazar Square is a Unicode block containing characters from the Zanabazar Square script (also known as "Horizontal square script"), which is an abugida developed by the monk and scholar Zanabazar (1635–1723) to write Mongolian, Tibetan and Sanskrit.

Block

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Zanabazar Square block:

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
10.0 U+11A00..11A47 72 L2/10-411 N3956 Pandey, Anshuman (2010-10-25), Preliminary Proposal for Xawtaa Dorboljin Script in ISO/IEC 10646 
L2/10-467 Sharma, Shriramana (2010-11-11), Comments on Soyombo and Xawtaa Dorboljin 
L2/11-162 N4041 Pandey, Anshuman (2011-05-03), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script 
L2/11-379 N4160 Pandey, Anshuman (2011-10-24), Revised Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script 
L2/13-068 N4413 Pandey, Anshuman (2013-04-22), Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script 
L2/13-086 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-04-26), Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals 
L2/13-085 Sharma, Shriramana (2013-04-28), Vocalic R etc in Mongolian Square 
L2/13-198 N4471 Pandey, Anshuman (2013-10-27), Revised Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script 
L2/13-200 Moore, Lisa (2013-11-18), UTC #137 Minutes 
L2/14-024 N4541 Pandey, Anshuman (2014-01-22), Proposal to Encode the Zanabazar Square Script 
L2/14-032 Anderson, Deborah (2014-01-25), Differences between L2/14-024 Zanabazar Script proposal and L2/13-198 Mongolian Square 
L2/14-033 N4527 Sharma, Shriramana (2014-01-26), Comments on the Zanabazar Square proposal 
L2/14-053 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals 
N4403 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14 
L2/14-026 Moore, Lisa (2014-02-17), UTC #138 Minutes 
N4613 Comment on Zanabazar Square script in ISO/IEC 10646:2014 PDAM2, 2014-09-02 
N4553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA 
L2/14-250 Moore, Lisa (2014-11-10), UTC #141 Minutes, "Change the name of character at U+11A29 from ZANABAZAR SQUARE LETTER SMALL A to ZANABAZAR SQUARE LETTER –A." 
L2/15-009 N4653 Suzuki, Toshiya; Matsukawa, Takashi; Kuribayashi, Hitoshi (2015-01-26), Comments on Proposals of Zanabazar Square and Soyombo Script from Mongolian Experts 
L2/15-094 Pandey, Anshuman (2015-02-09), Response to Mongolian and Japanese comments on Soyombo and Zanabazar Square 
L2/15-149 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals 
L2/16-052 N4603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63, "Rename 11A29 to ZANABAZAR SQUARE LETTER -A" 
L2/15-249R Anderson, Deborah (2015-10-17), Summary of Ad Hoc Meeting on Two Historical Scripts from Mongolia (Tokyo, Japan) 
N4699 Anderson, Deborah (2015-10-17), Summary of Ad Hoc Meeting on Two Historical Scripts from Mongolia (Tokyo, Japan) 
L2/15-246 Pandey, Anshuman (2015-10-20), Revised code chart and names list for Zanabazar Square 
L2/15-248 Otgonbaatar, R.; Demberel, S. (2015-10-20), The Comments on Square script & Soyombo encoding project 
L2/15-262 Disposition of Comments on ISO/IEC CD 10646 (Ed.5), 2015-10-26 
L2/15-254 Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), UTC #145 Minutes, "Approve new Zanabazar Square glyph changes, repertoire, code points, and names on the basis of CD2 draft, document L2/15-303." 
L2/15-337 Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-03), Proposal to Encode the Zanabazar Square Script 
L2/15-336 Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-07), Comments on L2/15-249 regarding Soyombo and Zanabazar Square punctuation 
L2/15-341R Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-30), Proposal to encode additional head marks for Zanabazar Square 
L2/15-342 Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-30), Proposal to Encode a Subjoiner for Zanabazar Square 
L2/16-037 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals 
L2/16-004 Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), UTC #146 Minutes 
N4739 Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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