Phags-pa (Unicode block)

Unicode character block

Phags-pa is a Unicode block containing characters from the 'Phags-pa script promulgated as a national script by Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan dynasty. It was used primarily in writing Mongolian and Chinese, although it was intended for the use of all written languages of the Mongol Empire.

Block

The block has six variation sequences defined for standardized variants.^[3] They use U+FE00 VARIATION SELECTOR-1 (VS01):

Note that four vowel letters have positional variants:

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Phags-pa block:

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. "Unicode Character Database: Standardized Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.