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Kharoshthi (Unicode block)

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Plane
  
SMP

Major alphabets
  
Gandhari Sanskrit

Scripts
  
Kharoshthi

Assigned
  
65 code points

Range
  
U+10A00..U+10A5F (96 code points)

Unused
  
31 reserved code points

Kharoshthi is a Unicode block containing characters used to write the Gandhari and Sanskrit languages in northwest India from the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE.

History

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

References

Kharoshthi (Unicode block) Wikipedia