Plane BMP Major alphabets Mongolian
Chinese Unused 8 reserved code points | Scripts Phags Pa Assigned 56 code points | |
Range U+A840..U+A87F
(64 code points) | ||
Phags-pa is a Unicode block containing characters from the 'Phags-pa script promulgated as a national script by Kublai Khan. It was used primarily in writing Mongolian and Chinese, although it was intended for the use of all languages of the Mongol Empire.
Contents
The block has six variation sequences defined for standardized variants.
Block
Note that four vowel letters have positional variants:
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Phags-pa block:
References
Phags-pa (Unicode block) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA