Graphical representation of the Hanunoo Unicode block

Hanunoo is a Unicode block containing characters used for writing the Hanunó'o language. It also contains the two punctuation marks (᜵ and ᜶) which are unified characters for all the Philippine scripts (Baybayin, Hanunoo, Buhid and Tagbanwa).

Hanunoo[1][2] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+172x
U+173x
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 Hanunoo block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
3.2U+1720..173623, )Everson, Michael (1998-05-25), Proposal for encoding the Philippine scripts in the BMP of ISO/IEC 10646
Everson, Michael (1998-11-23), Revised proposal for encoding the Philippine scripts in the UCS
Everson, Michael (1998-11-23), Revised proposal for encoding the Philippine scripts in the UCS
, )Aliprand, Joan (1999-02-05), "Philippine Scripts", Approved Minutes -- UTC #78 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 175 Joint Meeting, San Jose, CA -- December 1-4, 1998, [#78-M8] Motion:To accept document L2/98-397, Revised proposal for encoding Philippine scripts, for addition to the Unicode Standard after Version 3.0.
Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), "9.4.1", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15
Sato, T. K. (2000-02-22), Philippino characters (status report)
Everson, Michael (2000-10-16), Philippine Scripts (draft block description)
Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.14 Philippine scripts", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000
Pournader, Roozbeh (2021-05-20), Pamudpod properties (Tagalog and Hanunoo) [Affects U+1734]
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-07-26), "18 Tagalog and Hanunoo [Affects U+1734]", Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals
Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), "Consensus 168-C29 [Affects U+1734]", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168