Tirhuta is a Unicode block containing characters for Brahmi-derived Tirhuta script which was the primary writing system for Maithili in Bihar, India and Madhesh, Nepal until the 20th century.

Block

Tirhuta[1][2] (PDF)
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U+1148x𑒀‎𑒁‎𑒂‎𑒃‎𑒄‎𑒅‎𑒆‎𑒇‎𑒈‎𑒉‎𑒊‎𑒋‎𑒌‎𑒍‎𑒎‎𑒏‎
U+1149x𑒐‎𑒑‎𑒒‎𑒓‎𑒔‎𑒕‎𑒖‎𑒗‎𑒘‎𑒙‎𑒚‎𑒛‎𑒜‎𑒝‎𑒞‎𑒟‎
U+114Ax𑒠‎𑒡‎𑒢‎𑒣‎𑒤‎𑒥‎𑒦‎𑒧‎𑒨‎𑒩‎𑒪‎𑒫‎𑒬‎𑒭‎𑒮‎𑒯‎
U+114Bx𑒰‎𑒱‎𑒲‎𑒳‎𑒴‎𑒵‎𑒶‎𑒷‎𑒸‎𑒹‎𑒺‎𑒻‎𑒼‎𑒽‎𑒾‎𑒿‎
U+114Cx𑓀‎𑓁‎𑓂‎𑓃‎𑓄‎𑓅‎𑓆‎𑓇‎
U+114Dx𑓐‎𑓑‎𑓒‎𑓓‎𑓔‎𑓕‎𑓖‎𑓗‎𑓘‎𑓙‎
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 Tirhuta block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
7.0U+11480..114C7, 114D0..114D982Pandey, Anshuman (2006-06-21), Request to Allocate the Maithili Script in the Unicode Roadmap
Pandey, Anshuman (2009-09-30), Towards an Encoding for the Maithili Script in ISO/IEC 10646
Pandey, Anshuman (2011-05-05), Proposal to Encode the Tirhuta Script in ISO/IEC 10646
Moore, Lisa (2011-05-17), "D.9", UTC #127 / L2 #224 Minutes
Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "Consensus 128-C35", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes
"11.1.1 Tirhuta Script (was Maithili)", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03