Meroitic Hieroglyphs (Unicode block)

See also: Meroitic Cursive (Unicode block)

Meroitic Hieroglyphs
Range	U+10980..U+1099F (32 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Meroitic Hieroglyphs
Major alphabets	Meroitic
Assigned	32 code points
Unused	0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.1 (2012)	32 (+32)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1] [2]

Graphical representation of the Meroitic Hieroglyphs Unicode block

Meroitic Hieroglyphs is a Unicode block formal hieroglyphic containing characters for writing the Meroitic language. ^[3]

Meroitic Hieroglyphs [1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

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U+1098x

𐦀‎

𐦁‎

𐦂‎

𐦃‎

𐦄‎

𐦅‎

𐦆‎

𐦇‎

𐦈‎

𐦉‎

𐦊‎

𐦋‎

𐦌‎

𐦍‎

𐦎‎

𐦏‎

U+1099x

𐦐‎

𐦑‎

𐦒‎

𐦓‎

𐦔‎

𐦕‎

𐦖‎

𐦗‎

𐦘‎

𐦙‎

𐦚‎

𐦛‎

𐦜‎

𐦝‎

𐦞‎

𐦟‎

Notes 1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0

History

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

Version	Final code points [a]	Count	L2  ID	WG2  ID	Document
6.1	U+10980..1099F	32	L2/97-268	N1638	Everson, Michael (1997-09-18), Proposal to encode Meroitic in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646-2
			L2/98-070		Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, "3.A.4. item b. Meroitic", Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998
			L2/98-286	N1703	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
			L2/99-222	N2098	Wolf, Pawel (1999-07-13), Report on the standardization of a Meroitic sign list for Unicode
				N2134	Everson, Michael (1999-10-02), Response to comments on the question of encoding Meroitic in the UCS (N2098)
			L2/08-269	N3484	Everson, Michael (2008-08-04), Preliminary proposal for encoding the Meroitic script in the SMP of the UCS
			L2/09-188R2	N3646R2	Everson, Michael (2009-05-13), Proposal for encoding the Meroitic script in the SMP of the UCS
			L2/09-104		Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), "B.15.19", UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes
			L2/09-250	N3665	Everson, Michael (2009-07-29), Proposal for encoding the Meroitic Hieroglyphic and the Meroitic Cursive scripts in the SMP of the UCS
			L2/09-225R		Moore, Lisa (2009-08-17), "C.6", UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes
				N3703 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.25", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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.
3. Everson, Michael (2009-07-29). "N3665: Proposal for encoding the Meroitic Hieroglyphic and the Meroitic Cursive scripts in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.