Old South Arabian (Unicode block)

See also: Old North Arabian (Unicode block)

Old South Arabian
Range	U+10A60..U+10A7F (32 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Old South Arabian
Major alphabets	Minean Sabaean Qatabanian Hadramite Himyaritic
Assigned	32 code points
Unused	0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2 (2009)	32 (+32)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1] [2]

Old South Arabian is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Minean, Sabaean, Qatabanian, Hadramite, and Himyaritic languages of Yemen from the 8th century BCE to the 6th century CE.

U+10A7D OLD SOUTH ARABIAN NUMBER ONE (𐩽) represents both the numeral one and a word divider. ^[3]

Old South Arabian [1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+10A6x

𐩠

𐩡

𐩢

𐩣

𐩤

𐩥

𐩦

𐩧

𐩨

𐩩

𐩪

𐩫

𐩬

𐩭

𐩮

𐩯

U+10A7x

𐩰

𐩱

𐩲

𐩳

𐩴

𐩵

𐩶

𐩷

𐩸

𐩹

𐩺

𐩻

𐩼

𐩽

𐩾

𐩿

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 Old South Arabian block:

Version	Final code points [a]	Count	L2  ID	WG2  ID	Document
5.2	U+10A60..10A7F	32	L2/98-036	N1689	Everson, Michael (1998-01-18), Proposal to encode South Arabian in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/98-286	N1703	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.19", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
			L2/99-224	N2097, N2025-2	Röllig, W. (1999-07-23), Comments on proposals for the Universal Multiple-Octed Coded Character Set
				N2133	Response to comments on the question of encoding Old Semitic scripts in the UCS (N2097), 1999-10-04
			L2/00-010	N2103	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), "10.4", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13—16
				N3353 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.27", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
			L2/07-240	N3309	Maktari, Sultan; Mansour, Kamal (2007-07-30), Proposal to encode South Arabian Script
			L2/07-287	N3296	Everson, Michael (2007-08-29), Towards a proposal to encode the Old South Arabian script in the SMP of the UCS
			L2/08-044	N3395	Maktari, Sultan; Mansour, Kamal (2008-01-28), Proposal to encode Old South Arabian Script
			L2/08-003		Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Old South Arabian", UTC #114 Minutes
			L2/08-318	N3453 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.16", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
			L2/08-348	N3517	Anderson, Deborah (2008-09-30), Comments on Old South Arabian Names in N4034
			L2/08-161R2		Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Consensus 115-C19", UTC #115 Minutes, Update the approved Old South Arabian block range to U+10A60..U+10A7F, with all code points revised accordingly.
			L2/08-412	N3553 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.05", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53
			L2/08-361		Moore, Lisa (2008-12-02), "Consensus 117-C18", UTC #117 Minutes
			L2/09-234	N3603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
			L2/09-104		Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), "Consensus 119-C19", UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes, Approve the name changes in section A, B, and C of document L2/09-177... [U+10A6A, U+10A6F]
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. Maktari, Sultan; Mansour, Kamal. "N3395: Proposal to encode Old South Arabian script" (PDF). Retrieved 29 July 2025.