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<h2 id="block">Block</h2> <table><tbody><tr><td colspan="17">Gurmukhi[1][2]<a href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0A00.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+0A0x</td><td></td><td>ਁ</td><td>ਂ</td><td>ਃ</td><td></td><td>ਅ</td><td>ਆ</td><td>ਇ</td><td>ਈ</td><td>ਉ</td><td>ਊ</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>ਏ</td></tr><tr><td>U+0A1x</td><td>ਐ</td><td></td><td></td><td>ਓ</td><td>ਔ</td><td>ਕ</td><td>ਖ</td><td>ਗ</td><td>ਘ</td><td>ਙ</td><td>ਚ</td><td>ਛ</td><td>ਜ</td><td>ਝ</td><td>ਞ</td><td>ਟ</td></tr><tr><td>U+0A2x</td><td>ਠ</td><td>ਡ</td><td>ਢ</td><td>ਣ</td><td>ਤ</td><td>ਥ</td><td>ਦ</td><td>ਧ</td><td>ਨ</td><td></td><td>ਪ</td><td>ਫ</td><td>ਬ</td><td>ਭ</td><td>ਮ</td><td>ਯ</td></tr><tr><td>U+0A3x</td><td>ਰ</td><td></td><td>ਲ</td><td>ਲ਼</td><td></td><td>ਵ</td><td>ਸ਼</td><td></td><td>ਸ</td><td>ਹ</td><td></td><td></td><td>਼</td><td></td><td>ਾ</td><td>ਿ</td></tr><tr><td>U+0A4x</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>U+0A5x</td><td></td><td>ੑ</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>ਖ਼</td><td>ਗ਼</td><td>ਜ਼</td><td>ੜ</td><td></td><td>ਫ਼</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>U+0A6x</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>੦</td><td>੧</td><td>੨</td><td>੩</td><td>੪</td><td>੫</td><td>੬</td><td>੭</td><td>੮</td><td>੯</td></tr><tr><td>U+0A7x</td><td>ੰ</td><td>ੱ</td><td>ੲ</td><td>ੳ</td><td>ੴ</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 Gurmukhi block: </p> <table><tbody><tr><th><a href="/facts/Unicode/DDu3MfPV">Version</a></th><th>Final code points<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></th><th>Count</th><th><a href="/facts/Unicode_Consortium/mJQClyDW">UTC</a> ID</th><th><a href="/facts/International_Committee_for_Information_Technology_Standards/CXq4JYfR">L2</a> ID</th><th><a href="/facts/ISO/IEC_JTC_1/SC_2/IcW7grUW">WG2</a> ID</th><th>Document</th></tr><tr><td rowspan="11">1.0.0</td><td rowspan="11">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</td><td rowspan="11">74</td><td>UTC/1991-056</td><td></td><td></td><td>Whistler, Ken, <i>Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam</i></td></tr><tr><td>UTC/1991-057</td><td></td><td></td><td>Whistler, Ken, <i>Indic names list</i></td></tr><tr><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L1991-UTC/UTC46-draft.txt">UTC/1991-048B</a></td><td></td><td></td><td>Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III. L. Walk In proposals", <i>Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01303-india-letter.pdf">L2/01-303</a></td><td></td><td>Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), <i>Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01304-feedback.pdf">L2/01-304</a></td><td></td><td><i>Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0</i>, 2001-08-02</td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01305-india-resp.txt">L2/01-305</a></td><td></td><td>McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), <i>Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01430R.pdf">L2/01-430R</a></td><td></td><td>McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), <i>UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05371r-gur-annot.pdf">L2/05-371R</a></td><td></td><td>Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2005-11-30), <i>Gurmukhi annotations</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06008.htm">L2/06-008R2</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2006-02-13), "C.8", <i>UTC #106 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20055-comp-excl-seq.txt">L2/20-055</a></td><td></td><td>Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-01-16), <i>Proposed sequences for composition exclusions</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20015.htm">L2/20-015R</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "B.13.1.1 Proposed sequences for composition exclusions", <i>Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162</i></td></tr><tr><td>1.1</td><td>U+0A4D</td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>(to be determined)</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="5">4.0</td><td rowspan="5">U+0A01, 0A03</td><td rowspan="5">2</td><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01431R.pdf">L2/01-431R</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></td><td></td><td>McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), <i>Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01405-mi.htm">L2/01-405R</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2001-12-12), "Consensus 89-C19", <i>Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Mountain View, November 6-9, 2001</i>, Accept the twelve Indic characters with names and coding positions as documented in L2/01-431R</td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02117-indic.pdf">L2/02-117</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2425.pdf">N2425</a></td><td>McGowan, Rick (2002-03-21), <i>Additional Characters for Indic Scripts</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03102-indic-ov.pdf">L2/03-102</a></td><td></td><td>Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), <i>Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2003/03101-indic-dir/Gurmukhi.pdf">L2/03-101.4</a></td><td></td><td><i>Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Gurmukhi document]</i>, 2003-03-04</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="22">5.1</td><td rowspan="10">U+0A51</td><td rowspan="10">1</td><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05088-gurmukhi.pdf">L2/05-088R</a></td><td></td><td>Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2005-04-21), <i>Proposed Changes to Gurmukhi</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05167-gurmukhi.pdf">L2/05-167</a></td><td></td><td>Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2005-08-01), <i>Proposed Changes to Gurmukhi 2</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05180.htm">L2/05-180</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), "Gurmukhi (C.6)", <i>UTC #104 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05344-gurmukhi3.pdf">L2/05-344</a></td><td></td><td>Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2005-10-27), <i>Proposed changes to Gurmukhi 3</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05279.htm">L2/05-279</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "C.14", <i>UTC #105 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2005/05384-udaat.pdf">L2/05-384</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3021.pdf">N3021</a></td><td>Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2005-12-18), <i>Proposal to encode Gurmukhi 3</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06020-pr-82.html">L2/06-020</a></td><td></td><td>McGowan, Rick (2006-01-25), <i>Public Review Issue #82: Representation of Gurmukhi Double Vowels</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06030-gurmukhi.pdf">L2/06-030</a></td><td></td><td>Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2006-01-27), "E", <i>Proposed Changes to Gurmukhi 4</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06008.htm">L2/06-008R2</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2006-02-13), "B.11.5, C.8", <i>UTC #106 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3103.pdf">N3103 (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3103.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "M48.25a", <i>Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27</i></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="12">U+0A75</td><td rowspan="12">1</td><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06008.htm">L2/06-008R2</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2006-02-13), "C.8", <i>UTC #106 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06037r-yakash.pdf">L2/06-037R</a></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3073.pdf">N3073</a></td><td>Sidhu, Sukhjinder (2006-04-07), <i>Proposal to encode Gurmukhi Sign Yakash</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3103.pdf">N3103 (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3103.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "M48.25b", <i>Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16294-gurmukhi-chg.pdf">L2/16-294</a></td><td></td><td>Singh, Sarabveer (2016-10-27), <i>Changes to Gurmukhi 10</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16302-gurmukhi-feedback.txt">L2/16-302</a></td><td></td><td>Sharma, Shriramana (2016-10-28), <i>Feedback on L2/16-294 on Gurmukhi</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16327-pubrev.html">L2/16-327</a></td><td></td><td>McGowan, Rick (2016-11-07), "Feedback on L2/16-294 (Gurmukhi)", <i>Comments on Public Review Issues (July 27 - Nov 7, 2016)</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16342-script-ad-hoc.pdf">L2/16-342</a></td><td></td><td>Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-11-07), "4", <i>Recommendations to UTC #149 November 2016 on Script Proposals</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm">L2/16-325</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "D.4 (later rescinded)", <i>UTC #149 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16380-gurmukhi-fdbk.pdf">L2/16-380</a></td><td></td><td>Singh, Manvir (2016-12-09), <i>Feedback on L2/16-294</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16384-gurmukhi-feedbk.pdf">L2/16-384</a></td><td></td><td>Singh, Sarabveer (2016-12-13), <i>Feedback on L2/16-380</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><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), "5. Gurmukhi", <i>Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17016.htm">L2/17-016</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "Consensus 150-C13", <i>UTC #150 Minutes</i>, 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.</td></tr><tr><td rowspan="3">11.0</td><td rowspan="3">U+0A76</td><td rowspan="3">1</td><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16209r-gurmukhi-abbrev.pdf">L2/16-209R</a></td><td></td><td>A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-07-25), <i>Proposal to Encode an Abbreviation Sign for Gurmukhi</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16203.htm">L2/16-203</a></td><td></td><td>Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "D.9", <i>UTC #148 Minutes</i></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td><a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4873R-M65-Minutes.pdf">N4873R (pdf</a>, <a href="https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4873R-M65-Minutes.doc">doc</a>)</td><td>"M65.08f", <i>Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65</i>, 2018-03-16</td></tr><tr><td colspan="7"></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>See also L2/01-303, L2/01-304, L2/01-305, and L2/01-430R <a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01303-india-letter.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2001/01303-india-letter.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>