Kaithi (Unicode block)

Kaithi is a Unicode block containing characters historically used for writing Bhojpuri, Bajjika, Magahi, Awadhi, Maithili, Urdu, Hindi, and other related languages of the Bihar/Uttar Pradesh area of northern India.

Kaithi
Range	U+11080..U+110CF (80 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Kaithi
Major alphabets	Bhojpuri Magahi Awadhi Maithili Urdu Hindi
Assigned	68 code points
Unused	12 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2 (2009)	66 (+66)
11.0 (2018)	67 (+1)
14.0 (2021)	68 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note:

Kaithi[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

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A

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U+1108x

𑂀

𑂁

𑂂

𑂃

𑂄

𑂅

𑂆

𑂇

𑂈

𑂉

𑂊

𑂋

𑂌

𑂍

𑂎

𑂏

U+1109x

𑂐

𑂑

𑂒

𑂓

𑂔

𑂕

𑂖

𑂗

𑂘

𑂙

𑂚

𑂛

𑂜

𑂝

𑂞

𑂟

U+110Ax

𑂠

𑂡

𑂢

𑂣

𑂤

𑂥

𑂦

𑂧

𑂨

𑂩

𑂪

𑂫

𑂬

𑂭

𑂮

𑂯

U+110Bx

𑂰

𑂱

𑂲

𑂳

𑂴

𑂵

𑂶

𑂷

𑂸

𑂹

𑂺

𑂻

𑂼

𑂽

𑂾

𑂿

U+110Cx

𑃀

𑃁

𑃂

𑃍

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 Kaithi block:

Version	Final code points	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
5.2	U+11080..110C1	66	L2/05-343		Pandey, Anshuman (2005-10-25), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/05-368	N3014	Everson, Michael (2005-11-06), Towards an encoding of the Kaithi script
			L2/07-199		Pandey, Anshuman (2007-05-21), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in Plane 1
			L2/07-418	N3389	Pandey, Anshuman (2007-12-13), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/08-003		Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Kaithi", UTC #114 Minutes
			L2/08-156	N3438	Anderson, Deborah; Pandey, Anshuman (2008-04-11), Request for removal of digits from Kaithi proposal
			L2/08-194		Pandey, Anshuman (2008-05-06), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/08-318	N3453 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.15", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
			L2/08-370	N3544	Anderson, Deborah (2008-10-15), Proposal to add three Kaithi punctuation marks
			L2/08-400		Anderson, Deborah (2008-10-29), Information on U+110BD KAITHI NUMBER SIGN
			L2/08-161R2		Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Consensus 115-C18", UTC #115 Minutes, Rescind approval of 10 characters for Kaithi digits, at U+110C0..U+110C9. They will be unified with Devanagari.
			L2/08-412	N3553 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53
			L2/08-361		Moore, Lisa (2008-12-02), "Consensus 117-C22", UTC #117 Minutes
			L2/09-070		Pandey, Anshuman; Anderson, Deborah (2009-02-01), Comments on Kaithi Punctuation Marks and FPDAM 6
			L2/09-071	N3520R	Anderson, Deborah (2009-02-02), Details on Kaithi punctuation (based on N3389)
			L2/09-089	N3574	Pandey, Anshuman (2009-02-10), Proposal to Encode Section Marks for Kaithi in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/09-003R		Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), "E.6", UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes
			L2/09-234	N3603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03c", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
			L2/09-270R		Anderson, Deborah (2009-08-05), Kaithi Decomposition Questions for Unicode 5.2
			L2/09-225R		Moore, Lisa (2009-08-17), "E.3.1", UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes
11.0	U+110CD	1	L2/16-097R		Yang, Benjamin (2016-04-29), Proposal to encode Kaithi Number Sign Above
			L2/16-156		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), "10. Kaithi", Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals
			L2/16-121		Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "D.13", UTC #147 Minutes
14.0	U+110C2	1	L2/20-151		A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2020-06-24), Proposal to encode the KAITHI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC R
			L2/20-169		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-07-21), "12. Kaithi", Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals
			L2/20-172		Moore, Lisa (2020-08-03), "Consensus 164-C14", UTC #164 Minutes