Beria Erfe (Unicode block)

Beria Erfe
Range	U+16EA0..U+16EDF (64 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Beria Erfe
Assigned	50 code points
Unused	14 reserved code points
Unicode version history
17.0 (2025)	50 (+50)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1] [2]

Beria Erfe is a Unicode block containing letters for the Zaghawa alphabet, developed as a way to write the Zaghawa language (also known as Beria) of Sudan, Chad, and Libya.

Block

Beria Erfe [1] [2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

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1

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7

8

9

A

B

C

D

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U+16EAx

𖺠

𖺡

𖺢

𖺣

𖺤

𖺥

𖺦

𖺧

𖺨

𖺩

𖺪

𖺫

𖺬

𖺭

𖺮

𖺯

U+16EBx

𖺰

𖺱

𖺲

𖺳

𖺴

𖺵

𖺶

𖺷

𖺸

𖺻

𖺼

𖺽

𖺾

𖺿

U+16ECx

𖻀

𖻁

𖻂

𖻃

𖻄

𖻅

𖻆

𖻇

𖻈

𖻉

𖻊

𖻋

𖻌

𖻍

𖻎

𖻏

U+16EDx

𖻐

𖻑

𖻒

𖻓

Notes 1. ^ As of Unicode version 17.0 2. ^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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

Version	Final code points [a]	Count	L2  ID	Document
17.0	U+16EA0..16EB8, 16EBB..16ED3	50	L2/08-265	Priest, Lorna (2008-07-29), Preliminary proposal to encode Beria Giray Erfe (or Beria Branding Script)
			L2/08-323	McGowan, Rick (2008-08-13), "C.8", Scripts Subcommittee Draft Notes and Recommendations to UTC #116
			L2/22-073	Riley, Charles L. (2022-03-03), "Beria", Update on implementation status of African scripts
			L2/23-203	Yousuf, Oreen; Riley, Charles; Yacob, Daniel; Patel, Neil; Brookes, Tim (2023-09-08), "Beria Giray Erfe/Zaghawa", Update on Usage and Implementation Status of African Scripts
			L2/24-004R	Issa, Siddick Adam; et al. (2024-01-26), Proposal for encoding the Beria Erfe (Zaghawa) script in the SMP
			L2/24-013R	Anderson, Deborah; Goregaokar, Manish; Kučera, Jan; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2024-01-22), "1. Beria Erfe", Recommendations to UTC #178 January 2024 on Script Proposals
			L2/24-068	Anderson, Deborah; Goregaokar, Manish; Kučera, Jan; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2024-04-18), "1. Beria Erfe", Recommendations to UTC #179 April 2024 on Script Proposals
			L2/24-061	Constable, Peter (2024-04-29), "1. Beria Erfe", UTC #179 Minutes
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2025-09-09.
2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2025-09-09.