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Manichaean (Unicode block)

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Plane
  
SMP

Assigned
  
51 code points

Scripts
  
Manichaean

Range
  
U+10AC0..U+10AFF (64 code points)

Major alphabets
  
Sogdian, Parthian, Fars

Unused
  
13 reserved code points

Manichaean is a Unicode block containing characters historically used for writing Sogdian, Parthian, and Fars languages.

The block has five variation sequences defined for standardized variants.

History

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

References

Manichaean (Unicode block) Wikipedia