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Ancient Symbols (Unicode block)

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Unicode character block
Ancient Symbols
RangeU+10190..U+101CF
(64 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsGreek (1 char.)
Common (13 char.)
Symbol setsRoman weights and currency
Assigned14 code points
Unused50 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.1 (2008)12 (+12)
7.0 (2014)13 (+1)
13.0 (2020)14 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
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Ancient Symbols is a Unicode block containing Roman characters for currency, weights, and measures.

Block

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Ancient Symbols
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+1019x 𐆐 𐆑 𐆒 𐆓 𐆔 𐆕 𐆖 𐆗 𐆘 𐆙 𐆚 𐆛 𐆜
U+101Ax 𐆠
U+101Bx
U+101Cx
Notes
1. As of Unicode version 16.0
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 Ancient Symbols block:

Version Final code points Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
5.1 U+10190..1019A 11 L2/06-173 Perry, David J. (2006-05-05), Proposal to Add Ancient Roman Weights and Monetary Signs to UCS
L2/06-108 Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "C.21", UTC #107 Minutes
L2/06-234 Perry, David J. (2006-07-30), Proposal to Add Ancient Roman Weights and Monetary Signs to UCS
N3138 Perry, David J. (2006-07-30), Proposal to Add Ancient Roman Weights and Monetary Signs to UCS
L2/06-231 Moore, Lisa (2006-08-17), "C.7", UTC #108 Minutes
N3153 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), "M49.20", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29
U+1019B 1 L2/06-269 N3218 Perry, David J. (2006-08-01), Proposal to Add Additional Ancient Roman Characters to UCS
L2/06-324R2 Moore, Lisa (2006-11-29), "Consensus 109-C33", UTC #109 Minutes
L2/07-268 N3253 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.24", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
7.0 U+101A0 1 L2/12-034 N4194 Sosin, Joshua; Heilporn, Paul; Hoogendijk, Cisca; Mastronarde, Donald; Hickey, Todd; Anderson, Deborah (2012-01-23), Proposal for three Greek papyrological characters
L2/12-007 Moore, Lisa (2012-02-14), "C.12", UTC #130 / L2 #227 Minutes
N4253 (pdf, doc) "M59.16g", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12
13.0 U+1019C 1 L2/19-091 N5038 West, Andrew; Everson, Michael (2019-03-25), Proposal to encode a pair of Ascia symbols for Roman epigraphy
L2/19-173 Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-04-29), "21", Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals
N5122 "M68.10", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 68, 2019-12-31
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

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.
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