Avestan (Unicode block)

Avestan is a Unicode block containing characters devised for recording the Zoroastrian religious texts, Avesta, and was used to write the Middle Persian, or Pazand language.

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

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U+10B0x

𐬀

𐬁

𐬂

𐬃

𐬄

𐬅

𐬆

𐬇

𐬈

𐬉

𐬊

𐬋

𐬌

𐬍

𐬎

𐬏

U+10B1x

𐬐

𐬑

𐬒

𐬓

𐬔

𐬕

𐬖

𐬗

𐬘

𐬙

𐬚

𐬛

𐬜

𐬝

𐬞

𐬟

U+10B2x

𐬠

𐬡

𐬢

𐬣

𐬤

𐬥

𐬦

𐬧

𐬨

𐬩

𐬪

𐬫

𐬬

𐬭

𐬮

𐬯

U+10B3x

𐬰

𐬱

𐬲

𐬳

𐬴

𐬵

𐬹

𐬺

𐬻

𐬼

𐬽

𐬾

𐬿

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Avestan
Range	U+10B00..U+10B3F (64 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Avestan
Major alphabets	Pazand
Assigned	61 code points
Unused	3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2 (2009)	61 (+61)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

History

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

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
5.2	U+10B00..10B35, 10B39..10B3F	61	L2/98-031	N1684	Everson, Michael (1998-01-18), Proposal to encode Avestan in the BMP of ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/98-070		Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold, "3.A.3. item a. Avestan", Minutes of the joint UTC and L2 meeting from the meeting in Cupertino, February 25-27, 1998
			L2/98-286	N1703	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.9.4", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
			L2/00-128		Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode
			L2/01-007		Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Avestan", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode
			L2/02-009		Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Avestan and Pahlavi scripts", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report
			L2/02-450		Gippert, Jost (2002-11-29), 3rd Iranian Unicode Conference: Conference material (29-11-2002)
			L2/02-449	N2556	Everson, Michael (2002-12-04), Revised proposal to encode the Avestan and Pahlavi script in the UCS
			L2/06-335	N3178	Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2006-10-20), Proposal to encode the Avestan script in the BMP of the UCS
			L2/06-375		Gippert, Jost (2006-11-06), Note from Jost Gippert to Deborah Anderson in support of Avestan
			L2/07-004	N3193	Everson, Michael; Baker, Peter; Dohnicht, Marcus; Emiliano, António; Haugen, Odd Einar; Pedro, Susana; Perry, David J.; Pournader, Roozbeh (2007-01-09), Proposal to add Medievalist and Iranianist punctuation characters to the UCS
			L2/07-015		Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), "Consensus 110-C30", UTC #110 Minutes
			L2/07-006R	N3197R	Everson, Michael; Pournader, Roozbeh (2007-03-22), Revised proposal to encode the Avestan script in the SMP of the UCS
			L2/07-268	N3253 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.35", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
			L2/07-304	N3336	Anderson, Deborah (2007-09-13), Comments on the Avestan Separation Point
			L2/08-088	N3443	Anderson, Deborah (2008-01-28), Additional Comments on the Avestan Separation Point
			L2/08-173	N3444	Anderson, Deborah (2008-04-13), Expert Feedback on AVESTAN SEPARATION POINT
			L2/08-155		Anderson, Deborah (2008-04-14), Expert Feedback on Avestan Separation Point by Profs. Skjaervo, Jamison, and Watkins
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names