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Meroitic Cursive (Unicode block)
Unicode character block

Meroitic Cursive is a Unicode block containing demotic-style characters for writing the Meroitic language.

Meroitic Cursive[1][2]Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
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U+109Ax𐦠‎𐦡‎𐦢‎𐦣‎𐦤‎𐦥‎𐦦‎𐦧‎𐦨‎𐦩‎𐦪‎𐦫‎𐦬‎𐦭‎𐦮‎𐦯‎
U+109Bx𐦰‎𐦱‎𐦲‎𐦳‎𐦴‎𐦵‎𐦶‎𐦷‎𐦼‎𐦽‎𐦾‎𐦿‎
U+109Cx𐧀‎𐧁‎𐧂‎𐧃‎𐧄‎𐧅‎𐧆‎𐧇‎𐧈‎𐧉‎𐧊‎𐧋‎𐧌‎𐧍‎𐧎‎𐧏‎
U+109Dx𐧒‎𐧓‎𐧔‎𐧕‎𐧖‎𐧗‎𐧘‎𐧙‎𐧚‎𐧛‎𐧜‎𐧝‎𐧞‎𐧟‎
U+109Ex𐧠‎𐧡‎𐧢‎𐧣‎𐧤‎𐧥‎𐧦‎𐧧‎𐧨‎𐧩‎𐧪‎𐧫‎𐧬‎𐧭‎𐧮‎𐧯‎
U+109Fx𐧰‎𐧱‎𐧲‎𐧳‎𐧴‎𐧵‎𐧶‎𐧷‎𐧸‎𐧹‎𐧺‎𐧻‎𐧼‎𐧽‎𐧾‎𐧿‎
Notes1.^ As of Unicode version 16.02.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points
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History

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

VersionFinal code points2CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
6.1U+109A0..109B7, 109BE..109BF26L2/97-268N1638Everson, Michael (1997-09-18), Proposal to encode Meroitic in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646-2
L2/98-070Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, "3.A.4.b", Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998
L2/98-286N1703Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
L2/99-222N2098Wolf, Pawel (1999-07-13), Report on the standardization of a Meroitic sign list for Unicode
N2134Everson, Michael (1999-10-02), Response to comments on the question of encoding Meroitic in the UCS (N2098)
L2/08-269N3484Everson, Michael (2008-08-04), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Meroitic script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/09-188R2N3646R2Everson, Michael (2009-05-13), Proposal for encoding the Meroitic script in the SMP of the UCS
L2/09-250N3665Everson, Michael (2009-07-29), Proposal for encoding the Meroitic Hieroglyphic and the Meroitic Cursive scripts in the SMP of the UCS
L2/09-225RMoore, Lisa (2009-08-17), "C.6", UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes
N3703 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.25", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30
8.0U+109BC..109BD, 109C0..109CF, 109D2..109FF364L2/11-237N4098Suignard, Michel (2011-06-06), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4168 (ISO/IEC FCD 10646 3rd Ed., Information Technology – Universal Coded Character Set (UCS))
N4103"T3. Row 109A: Meroitic Cursive", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
L2/12-206N4276Everson, Michael (2012-06-06), Proposal for encoding Meroitic numbers in the SMP of the UCS
L2/12-343R2Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "C.19", UTC #133 Minutes
N4353 (pdf, doc)"M60.16", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23

References

  1. Everson, Michael (2009-07-29). "N3665: Proposal for encoding the Meroitic Hieroglyphic and the Meroitic Cursive scripts in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09250-n3665-meroitic.pdf

  2. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

  3. See also L2/08-269, L2/09-188R2, and L2/09-250 https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08269-n3484-meroitic.pdf