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<h2 id="block">Block</h2> <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="17">Sogdian[1][2]<a href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10F30.pdf">Official Unicode Consortium code chart</a> (PDF)</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>0</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>A</td><td>B</td><td>C</td><td>D</td><td>E</td><td>F</td></tr><tr><td>U+10F3x</td><td>𐼰</td><td>𐼱</td><td>𐼲</td><td>𐼳</td><td>𐼴</td><td>𐼵</td><td>𐼶</td><td>𐼷</td><td>𐼸</td><td>𐼹</td><td>𐼺</td><td>𐼻</td><td>𐼼</td><td>𐼽</td><td>𐼾</td><td>𐼿</td></tr><tr><td>U+10F4x</td><td>𐽀</td><td>𐽁</td><td>𐽂</td><td>𐽃</td><td>𐽄</td><td>𐽅</td><td>𐽆</td><td>𐽇</td><td>𐽈</td><td>𐽉</td><td>𐽊</td><td>𐽋</td><td>𐽌</td><td>𐽍</td><td>𐽎</td><td>𐽏</td></tr><tr><td>U+10F5x</td><td>𐽐</td><td>𐽑</td><td>𐽒</td><td>𐽓</td><td>𐽔</td><td>𐽕</td><td>𐽖</td><td>𐽗</td><td>𐽘</td><td>𐽙</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>U+10F6x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="17">Notes1.^ As of Unicode version 16.02.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Sogdian block: </p> <table><tbody><tr><th><a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">Version</a></th><th>Final code points<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></th><th>Count</th><th><a href="/facts/International_Committee_for_Information_Technology_Standards/CXq4JYfR">L2</a> ID</th><th><a href="/facts/ISO%2fIEC_JTC_1%2fSC_2/IcW7grUW">WG2</a> ID</th><th>Document</th></tr><tr><td rowspan="10">11.0</td><td rowspan="10">U+10F30..10F59</td><td rowspan="10">42</td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2000/00128-pastscripts.pdf">L2/00-128</a></td><td></td><td>Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), <i>Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01007-iran.txt">L2/01-007</a></td><td></td><td>Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Inscriptional Alphabets (Middle Persian, Parthian) and Sogdian vs. Aramaic", <i>Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02009-iranian.pdf">L2/02-009</a></td><td></td><td>Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Sogdian script", <i>2nd Iranian Meeting Report</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16158-sogdian.pdf">L2/16-158</a></td><td></td><td>Pandey, Anshuman (2016-05-09), <i>Preliminary proposal to encode Sogdian in Unicode</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16216-script-ad-hoc.pdf">L2/16-216</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), "7. Sogdian", <i>Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17037-script-ad-hoc.pdf">L2/17-037</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "14. Sogdian", <i>Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17016.htm">L2/17-016</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.12", <i>UTC #150 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16371r2-sogdian.pdf">L2/16-371R2</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4815-sogdian.pdf">N4815</a></td><td>Pandey, Anshuman (2017-01-25), <i>Revised proposal to encode the Sogdian script</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18115.htm">L2/18-115</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "B.11.12", <i>UTC #155 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5020-M67-Minutes.pdf">N5020 (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5020-M67-Minutes.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "6.2.2 and 6.2.3", <i>Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67</i></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6"></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="font">Font</h2> <p>There is a Unicode font encoding Sogdian - <a href="https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Sogdian">Noto Sans Sogdian</a>. </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Chapter 14: South and Central Asia-III, Ancient Scripts". The Unicode Standard, Version 11.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2018. ISBN 978-1-936213-19-1. <a href="978-1-936213-19-1" target="_blank">978-1-936213-19-1</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>