Zanabazar Square is a Unicode block containing characters from the Zanabazar Square script (also known as "Horizontal square script"), which is an abugida developed by the monk and scholar Zanabazar (1635–1723) to write Mongolian, Tibetan and Sanskrit.

Block

Zanabazar Square[1][2] (PDF)
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U+11A0x𑨀‎𑨁‎𑨂‎𑨃‎𑨄‎𑨅‎𑨆‎𑨇‎𑨈‎𑨉‎𑨊‎𑨋‎𑨌‎𑨍‎𑨎‎𑨏‎
U+11A1x𑨐‎𑨑‎𑨒‎𑨓‎𑨔‎𑨕‎𑨖‎𑨗‎𑨘‎𑨙‎𑨚‎𑨛‎𑨜‎𑨝‎𑨞‎𑨟‎
U+11A2x𑨠‎𑨡‎𑨢‎𑨣‎𑨤‎𑨥‎𑨦‎𑨧‎𑨨‎𑨩‎𑨪‎𑨫‎𑨬‎𑨭‎𑨮‎𑨯‎
U+11A3x𑨰‎𑨱‎𑨲‎𑨳‎𑨴‎𑨵‎𑨶‎𑨷‎𑨸‎𑨹‎𑨺‎𑨻‎𑨼‎𑨽‎𑨾‎𑨿‎
U+11A4x𑩀‎𑩁‎𑩂‎𑩃‎𑩄‎𑩅‎𑩆‎𑩇‎
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 Zanabazar Square block:

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
10.0U+11A00..11A4772Pandey, Anshuman (2010-10-25), Preliminary Proposal for Xawtaa Dorboljin Script in ISO/IEC 10646
Sharma, Shriramana (2010-11-11), Comments on Soyombo and Xawtaa Dorboljin
Pandey, Anshuman (2011-05-03), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script
Pandey, Anshuman (2011-10-24), Revised Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script
Pandey, Anshuman (2013-04-22), Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script
Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-04-26), "5", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
Sharma, Shriramana (2013-04-28), Vocalic R etc in Mongolian Square
Pandey, Anshuman (2013-10-27), Revised Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script
Moore, Lisa (2013-11-18), "D.7", UTC #137 Minutes
Pandey, Anshuman (2014-01-22), Proposal to Encode the Zanabazar Square Script
Anderson, Deborah (2014-01-25), Differences between L2/14-024 Zanabazar Script proposal and L2/13-198 Mongolian Square
Sharma, Shriramana (2014-01-26), Comments on the Zanabazar Square proposal
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), "19", Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "10.2.4 Mongolian Square script", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14
Moore, Lisa (2014-02-17), "Consensus 138-C13, 138-C26", UTC #138 Minutes
Comment on Zanabazar Square script in ISO/IEC 10646:2014 PDAM2, 2014-09-02
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.11", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
Moore, Lisa (2014-11-10), "Consensus 141-C14", UTC #141 Minutes, Change the name of character at U+11A29 from ZANABAZAR SQUARE LETTER SMALL A to ZANABAZAR SQUARE LETTER –A.
Suzuki, Toshiya; Matsukawa, Takashi; Kuribayashi, Hitoshi (2015-01-26), Comments on Proposals of Zanabazar Square and Soyombo Script from Mongolian Experts
Pandey, Anshuman (2015-02-09), Response to Mongolian and Japanese comments on Soyombo and Zanabazar Square
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), "9. Soyombo", Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals
, )Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.03e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63, Rename 11A29 to ZANABAZAR SQUARE LETTER -A
Anderson, Deborah (2015-10-17), Summary of Ad Hoc Meeting on Two Historical Scripts from Mongolia (Tokyo, Japan)
Anderson, Deborah (2015-10-17), Summary of Ad Hoc Meeting on Two Historical Scripts from Mongolia (Tokyo, Japan)
Pandey, Anshuman (2015-10-20), Revised code chart and names list for Zanabazar Square
Otgonbaatar, R.; Demberel, S. (2015-10-20), The Comments on Square script & Soyombo encoding project
Disposition of Comments on ISO/IEC CD 10646 (Ed.5), 2015-10-26
Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "Consensus 145-C17", UTC #145 Minutes, Approve new Zanabazar Square glyph changes, repertoire, code points, and names on the basis of CD2 draft, document L2/15-303.
Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-03), Proposal to Encode the Zanabazar Square Script
Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-07), Comments on L2/15-249 regarding Soyombo and Zanabazar Square punctuation
Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-30), Proposal to encode additional head marks for Zanabazar Square
Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-30), Proposal to Encode a Subjoiner for Zanabazar Square
Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), "8.c", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals
Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), "D.9.1, D.9.2, D.9.3, D.10.2", UTC #146 Minutes
"M64.05i and j", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31