Kannada (Unicode block)

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Kannada
RangeU+0C80..U+0CFF
(128 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Kannada
Major alphabetsKannada
Tulu
Assigned92 code points
Unused36 reserved code points
Source standards ISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)80 (+80)
4.0 (2003)82 (+2)
5.0 (2006)86 (+4)
7.0 (2014)87 (+1)
9.0 (2016)88 (+1)
11.0 (2018)89 (+1)
14.0 (2021)90 (+1)
15.0 (2022)91 (+1)
17.0 (2025)92 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1] [2]

Kannada is a Unicode block containing characters for the Kannada, Sanskrit, Konkani, Sankethi, Havyaka, Tulu and Kodava languages. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0C82..U+0CCD were a direct copy of the Kannada characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Contents

Block

Kannada [1] [2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+0C8x
U+0C9x
U+0CAx
U+0CBxಿ
U+0CCx
U+0CDx
U+0CEx
U+0CFx    
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 Kannada block:

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.