Telugu (Unicode block)

Telugu
Range	U+0C00..U+0C7F (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Telugu
Major alphabets	Telugu Gondi Lambadi
Assigned	101 code points
Unused	27 reserved code points
Source standards	ISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)	80 (+80)
5.1 (2008)	93 (+13)
7.0 (2014)	95 (+2)
8.0 (2015)	96 (+1)
11.0 (2018)	97 (+1)
12.0 (2019)	98 (+1)
14.0 (2021)	100 (+2)
17.0 (2025)	101 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1] [2]

Telugu is a Unicode block containing characters for the Telugu, Gondi, and Lambadi languages of Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0C01..U+0C4D were a direct copy of the Telugu characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Block

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

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+0C0x

ఀ

ఁ

ం

ః

ఄ

అ

ఆ

ఇ

ఈ

ఉ

ఊ

ఋ

ఌ

ఎ

ఏ

U+0C1x

ఐ

ఒ

ఓ

ఔ

క

ఖ

గ

ఘ

ఙ

చ

ఛ

జ

ఝ

ఞ

ట

U+0C2x

ఠ

డ

ఢ

ణ

త

థ

ద

ధ

న

ప

ఫ

బ

భ

మ

య

U+0C3x

ర

ఱ

ల

ళ

ఴ

వ

శ

ష

స

హ

఼

ఽ

ా

ి

U+0C4x

ీ

ు

ూ

ృ

ౄ

ె

ే

ై

ొ

ో

ౌ

్

U+0C5x

ౕ

ౖ

ౘ

ౙ

ౚ

౜

ౝ

U+0C6x

ౠ

ౡ

ౢ

ౣ

౦

౧

౨

౩

౪

౫

౬

౭

౮

౯

U+0C7x

౷

౸

౹

౺

౻

౼

౽

౾

౿

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 Telugu block:

Version	Final code points [a]	Count	UTC  ID	L2  ID	WG2  ID	Document
1.0.0	U+0C01..0C03, 0C05..0C0C, 0C0E..0C10, 0C12..0C28, 0C2A..0C33, 0C35..0C39, 0C3E..0C44, 0C46..0C48, 0C4A..0C4D, 0C55..0C56, 0C60..0C61, 0C66..0C6F	80	UTC/1991-056			Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam
			UTC/1991-057			Whistler, Ken, Indic names list
			UTC/1991-048B			Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III. L. Walk In proposals", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
				L2/01-303		Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"
				L2/01-304		Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02
				L2/01-305		McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
				L2/01-430R		McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
5.1	U+0C3D, 0C58..0C59, 0C62..0C63, 0C78..0C7F	13		L2/03-102		Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
				L2/03-101.9		Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Telugu document], 2003-03-04
				L2/06-250R [b]	N3116R	Everson, Michael; Kolichala, Suresh; Venna, Nagarjuna (2006-08-02), Proposal to add eighteen characters for Telugu to the BMP
				L2/06-267		Ganesan, Naga (2006-07-31), Comments on L2/06-250, Proposal to add eighteen characters for Telugu to the BMP of the UCS
				L2/06-231		Moore, Lisa (2006-08-17), "C.12.1", UTC #108 Minutes
					N3153 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), "M49.2", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29
				L2/06-324R2		Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), "Consensus 109-C1, C.6.1", UTC #109 Minutes
7.0	U+0C00	1		L2/10-392R2	N3964	Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-11), Request to encode South Indian CANDRABINDU-s
				L2/10-440		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-10-27), "5. South Indian Candrabindus", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
				L2/10-416R		Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "South Indian candrabindu-s (D.8)", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes
					N4103	"11.2.4 South Indian CANDRABINDU-s", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
	U+0C34	1		L2/12-015	N4214	Sharma, Shriramana; Kolichala, Suresh; Venna, Nagarjuna; Rajan, Vinodh (2012-01-17), Proposal to encode 0C34 TELUGU LETTER LLLA
				L2/12-031		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-01-27), "3. TELUGU LETTER LLLA", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
				L2/12-076		Govt. of Andhra Pradesh's inputs on document no. L2/12-015, 2012-02-01
				L2/12-007		Moore, Lisa (2012-02-14), "D.2", UTC #130 / L2 #227 Minutes
					N4253 (pdf, doc)	"M59.16e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12
8.0	U+0C5A	1		L2/12-016	N4215	Sharma, Shriramana; Kolichala, Suresh; Venna, Nagarjuna; Rajan, Vinodh (2012-01-18), Proposal to encode 0C5A TELUGU LETTER RRRA
				L2/12-031		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-01-27), "4. TELUGU LETTER RRRA", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
				L2/13-028		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-01-28), "20", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
				L2/13-121		Kolichala, Suresh (2013-05-09), Letter from Andhra Pradesh re Telugu RRRA
				L2/13-058		Moore, Lisa (2013-06-12), "Consensus 135-C20", UTC #135 Minutes, Accept U+0C5A TELUGU LETTER RRRA for encoding in a future version of the standard, with properties as given in L2/12-016.
					N4403 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "10.3.2 Telugu Letter RRRA", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14
11.0	U+0C04	1		L2/16-285	N4798	A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-10-20), Proposal to encode the TELUGU SIGN COMBINING ANUSVARA ABOVE
				L2/16-342		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-11-07), "3", Recommendations to UTC #149 November 2016 on Script Proposals
				L2/16-325		Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "D.3", UTC #149 Minutes
12.0	U+0C77	1		L2/17-218R	N4860	A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-07-17), Proposal to encode the TELUGU SIGN SIDDHAM
				L2/17-255		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2017-07-28), "12. Telugu", Recommendations to UTC #152 July-August 2017 on Script Proposals
				L2/17-222		Moore, Lisa (2017-08-11), "D.13", UTC #152 Minutes
					N4953 (pdf, doc)	"M66.16a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23
14.0	U+0C3C	1		L2/19-401		Rajan, Vinodh; Sharma, Shriramana; Kolichala, Suresh (2019-12-17), Proposal to Encode Telugu Sign Nukta
				L2/19-405		A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2019-12-29), Additional evidence for the use of Nukta sign in Telugu
				L2/20-046		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2020-01-10), "8. Telugu", Recommendations to UTC #162 January 2020 on Script Proposals
				L2/20-085		Rajan, Vinodh; Sharma, Shriramana; Kolichala, Suresh (2020-03-18), Revised Proposal to Encode Telugu Sign Nukta
				L2/20-105		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-04-20), "9a. Telugu Sign Nukta", Recommendations to UTC #163 April 2020 on Script Proposals
				L2/20-102		Moore, Lisa (2020-05-06), "Consensus 163-C16", UTC #163 Minutes
	U+0C5D	1		L2/20-084R		Rajan, Vinodh; Sharma, Shriramana; Kolichala, Suresh (2020-04-18), Revised Proposal to Encode Telugu Letter Nakaara Pollu
				L2/20-105		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-04-20), "9b. Telugu Letter Nakaara Pollu", Recommendations to UTC #163 April 2020 on Script Proposals
				L2/20-102		Moore, Lisa (2020-05-06), "Consensus 163-C17", UTC #163 Minutes
17.0	U+0C5C	1		L2/22-006		A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2021-12-23), Proposal to encode ARCHAIC SHRII in Kannada and Telugu
				L2/22-023		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Constable, Peter (2022-01-22), "9 Kannada and Telugu", Recommendations to UTC #170 January 2022 on Script Proposals
				L2/22-016		Constable, Peter (2022-04-21), "D.1 9 Kannada and Telugu", UTC #170 Minutes
				L2/24-061		Constable, Peter (2024-04-29), "B.1.1", UTC #179 Minutes
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names See also L2/01-303, L2/01-304, L2/01-305, and L2/01-430R

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.