Indic Siyaq Numbers is a Unicode block containing a specialized subset of the Arabic script that was used for accounting in India under the Mughals by the 17th century through the middle of the 20th century.[3][4]
| Indic Siyaq Numbers | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1EC70..U+1ECBF (80 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Assigned | 68 code points |
| Unused | 12 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 11.0 (2018) | 68 (+68) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Block
edit| Indic Siyaq Numbers[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+1EC7x | 𞱱 | 𞱲 | 𞱳 | 𞱴 | 𞱵 | 𞱶 | 𞱷 | 𞱸 | 𞱹 | 𞱺 | 𞱻 | 𞱼 | 𞱽 | 𞱾 | 𞱿 | |
| U+1EC8x | 𞲀 | 𞲁 | 𞲂 | 𞲃 | 𞲄 | 𞲅 | 𞲆 | 𞲇 | 𞲈 | 𞲉 | 𞲊 | 𞲋 | 𞲌 | 𞲍 | 𞲎 | 𞲏 |
| U+1EC9x | 𞲐 | 𞲑 | 𞲒 | 𞲓 | 𞲔 | 𞲕 | 𞲖 | 𞲗 | 𞲘 | 𞲙 | 𞲚 | 𞲛 | 𞲜 | 𞲝 | 𞲞 | 𞲟 |
| U+1ECAx | 𞲠 | 𞲡 | 𞲢 | 𞲣 | 𞲤 | 𞲥 | 𞲦 | 𞲧 | 𞲨 | 𞲩 | 𞲪 | 𞲫 | 𞲬 | 𞲭 | 𞲮 | 𞲯 |
| U+1ECBx | 𞲰 | 𞲱 | 𞲲 | 𞲳 | 𞲴 | |||||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
History
editThe following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Indic Siyaq Numbers block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.0 | U+1EC71..1ECB4 | 68 | L2/07-414 | Pandey, Anshuman (2007-12-04), Proposal to Encode Siyaq Numerals | |
| L2/09-166 | N4118 | Pandey, Anshuman (2009-05-02), A Model for Encoding Numerals of the Ottoman Siyaq System | |||
| L2/11-270 | N4123 | Pandey, Anshuman (2011-07-13), Preliminary Proposal to Encode Indic Siyaq Numbers | |||
| L2/15-149 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), "19. Indic Siyaq Numbers", Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/15-312 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2015-11-01), "11. Siyaq", Recommendations to UTC #145 November 2015 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/15-121R2 | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-11-05), Proposal to Encode Indic Siyaq Numbers | ||||
| L2/15-254 | Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "D.15", UTC #145 Minutes | ||||
| L2/16-121 | Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "D.11.3", UTC #147 Minutes | ||||
| L2/19-047 | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-01-13), "22", Recommendations to UTC #158 January 2019 on Script Proposals | ||||
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References
edit- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ Pandey, Anshuman (2015-11-05). "L2/15-121R2: Proposal to Encode Indic Siyaq Numbers" (PDF).
- ^ "Chapter 22: Symbols". The Unicode Standard, Version 11.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2018. ISBN 978-1-936213-19-1.