Sogdian is a Unicode block containing characters used to write the Sogdian language from the 7th to 14th centuries CE.

Block

Sogdian[1][2] (PDF)
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U+10F3x𐼰‎𐼱‎𐼲‎𐼳‎𐼴‎𐼵‎𐼶‎𐼷‎𐼸‎𐼹‎𐼺‎𐼻‎𐼼‎𐼽‎𐼾‎𐼿‎
U+10F4x𐽀‎𐽁‎𐽂‎𐽃‎𐽄‎𐽅‎𐽆‎𐽇‎𐽈‎𐽉‎𐽊‎𐽋‎𐽌‎𐽍‎𐽎‎𐽏‎
U+10F5x𐽐‎𐽑‎𐽒‎𐽓‎𐽔‎𐽕‎𐽖‎𐽗‎𐽘‎𐽙‎
U+10F6x
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 Sogdian block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
11.0U+10F30..10F5942Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Inscriptional Alphabets (Middle Persian, Parthian) and Sogdian vs. Aramaic", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode
Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Sogdian script", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report
Pandey, Anshuman (2016-05-09), Preliminary proposal to encode Sogdian in Unicode
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), "7. Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "14. Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.12", UTC #150 Minutes
Pandey, Anshuman (2017-01-25), Revised proposal to encode the Sogdian script
Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "B.11.12", UTC #155 Minutes
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "6.2.2 and 6.2.3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67

Font

There is a Unicode font encoding Sogdian - .