Pau Cin Hau (Unicode block)

Pau Cin Hau
RangeU+11AC0..U+11AFF
(64 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsPau Cin Hau
Major alphabetsPau Cin Hau
Assigned57 code points
Unused7 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0 (2014)57 (+57)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Pau Cin Hau is a Unicode block containing characters for the Pau Cin Hau alphabet which was created by Pau Cin Hau, founder of the Laipian religion, to represent his religious teachings.[3] It was used primarily in the 1930s to write Tedim which is spoken in Chin State, Myanmar.

Block

Pau Cin Hau[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+11ACx 𑫀‎ 𑫁‎ 𑫂‎ 𑫃‎ 𑫄‎ 𑫅‎ 𑫆‎ 𑫇‎ 𑫈‎ 𑫉‎ 𑫊‎ 𑫋‎ 𑫌‎ 𑫍‎ 𑫎‎ 𑫏‎
U+11ADx 𑫐‎ 𑫑‎ 𑫒‎ 𑫓‎ 𑫔‎ 𑫕‎ 𑫖‎ 𑫗‎ 𑫘‎ 𑫙‎ 𑫚‎ 𑫛‎ 𑫜‎ 𑫝‎ 𑫞‎ 𑫟‎
U+11AEx 𑫠‎ 𑫡‎ 𑫢‎ 𑫣‎ 𑫤‎ 𑫥‎ 𑫦‎ 𑫧‎ 𑫨‎ 𑫩‎ 𑫪‎ 𑫫‎ 𑫬‎ 𑫭‎ 𑫮‎ 𑫯‎
U+11AFx 𑫰‎ 𑫱‎ 𑫲‎ 𑫳‎ 𑫴‎ 𑫵‎ 𑫶‎ 𑫷‎ 𑫸‎
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
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 Pau Cin Hau block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
7.0 U+11AC0..11AF8 57 L2/10-080 N3781 Pandey, Anshuman (2010-02-28), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Script in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/10-092R N3784R Pandey, Anshuman (2010-05-22), Defining Properties for Tone Marks of the Pau Cin Hau Script
L2/10-073R1 N3865R Pandey, Anshuman (2010-07-26), Allocating the Pau Cin Hau Scripts in the Unicode Roadmap
L2/10-437 N3960 Pandey, Anshuman (2010-10-27), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/11-104R Pandey, Anshuman (2011-04-27), Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet in ISO/IEC 10646
N4017 Pandey, Anshuman (2011-04-27), Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/11-116 Moore, Lisa (2011-05-17), "D.3", UTC #127 / L2 #224 Minutes
L2/11-287 N4129 Pandey, Anshuman (2011-07-25), Proposal to Change the Names for Some Pau Cin Hau Characters
L2/11-298 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-07-27), "6. Pau Cin Hau", South Asian subcommittee report
L2/11-261R2 Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "D.9", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes
N4103 "11.4 Pau Cin Hau alphabet", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
L2/13-086 Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-04-26), "7", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
L2/13-067 N4412 Pandey, Anshuman (2013-04-27), Preliminary Code Chart for the Pau Cin Hau Syllabary
N4403 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "10.2.3 Pau Cin Hau syllabary - chart", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14
  1. ^ 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. ^ Pandey, Anshuman (2011-04-27). "N4017: Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet in ISO/IEC 10646" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.