Kannada (Unicode block)

Kannada is a Unicode block containing characters for the Kannada, Sanskrit, Konkani, Sankethi, Havyaka, Tulu and Kodava languages. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0C82..U+0CCD were a direct copy of the Kannada characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Kannada
Range	U+0C80..U+0CFF (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Kannada
Major alphabets	Kannada Tulu
Assigned	91 code points
Unused	37 reserved code points
Source standards	ISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)	80 (+80)
4.0 (2003)	82 (+2)
5.0 (2006)	86 (+4)
7.0 (2014)	87 (+1)
9.0 (2016)	88 (+1)
11.0 (2018)	89 (+1)
14.0 (2021)	90 (+1)
15.0 (2022)	91 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Block

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

0

1

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5

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7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+0C8x

ಀ

ಁ

ಂ

ಃ

಄

ಅ

ಆ

ಇ

ಈ

ಉ

ಊ

ಋ

ಌ

ಎ

ಏ

U+0C9x

ಐ

ಒ

ಓ

ಔ

ಕ

ಖ

ಗ

ಘ

ಙ

ಚ

ಛ

ಜ

ಝ

ಞ

ಟ

U+0CAx

ಠ

ಡ

ಢ

ಣ

ತ

ಥ

ದ

ಧ

ನ

ಪ

ಫ

ಬ

ಭ

ಮ

ಯ

U+0CBx

ರ

ಱ

ಲ

ಳ

ವ

ಶ

ಷ

ಸ

ಹ

಼

ಽ

ಾ

ಿ

U+0CCx

ೀ

ು

ೂ

ೃ

ೄ

ೆ

ೇ

ೈ

ೊ

ೋ

ೌ

್

U+0CDx

ೕ

ೖ

ೝ

ೞ

U+0CEx

ೠ

ೡ

ೢ

ೣ

೦

೧

೨

೩

೪

೫

೬

೭

೮

೯

U+0CFx

ೱ

ೲ

ೳ

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 Kannada block:

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	UTC ID	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.0.0	U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF	80	UTC/1991-056			Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam
			UTC/1991-057			Whistler, Ken, Indic names list
			UTC/1991-048B			Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III. L. Walk In proposals", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
				L2/01-303		Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"
				L2/01-304		Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02
				L2/01-305		McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
				L2/01-430R		McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
				L2/05-137		Freytag, Asmus (2005-05-10), Handling "defective" names
				L2/05-108R		Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), "Consensus 103-C7", UTC #103 Minutes, Create a "Normative Name Alias" property and file in the UCD. Populate the property with names from the sections "Typos" and "Bad or misleading names" from document L2/05-137.
				L2/06-157		McGowan, Rick (2006-05-12), "Proposed Additional Name Aliases (BETA FEEDBACK) [U+0CDE]", Comments on Public Review Issues (January 31, 2006 - May 12, 2006)
				L2/06-108		Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "B.11.10 [U+0CDE]", UTC #107 Minutes
				L2/13-232		A, Srinidhi (2013-12-03), Request to change the Unicode chart font for Kannada
				L2/14-053		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), "3", Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals
				L2/17-041		A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-01-22), Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs
				L2/17-127		Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Feedback and Response on L2/17-041: Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs
				L2/17-160		Sharma, Shriramana (2017-05-07), On the glyph changes for Kannada Vowels Vocalic L/LL
				L2/17-153		Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "5", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
				L2/17-103		Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.6.1", UTC #151 Minutes
4.0	U+0CBC..0CBD	2		L2/01-431R[b]		McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R
				L2/01-405R		Moore, Lisa (2001-12-12), "Consensus 89-C19", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Mountain View, November 6-9, 2001, Accept the twelve Indic characters with names and coding positions as documented in L2/01-431R
				L2/02-117	N2425	McGowan, Rick (2002-03-21), Additional Characters for Indic Scripts
				L2/03-102		Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
				L2/03-101.5		Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Kannada document], 2003-03-04
5.0	U+0CE2..0CE3	2		L2/04-364	N2860	Everson, Michael (2004-10-22), Proposal to add six characters for Kannada to the BMP of the UCS
				L2/05-059		Whistler, Ken (2005-02-03), "2. Kannada additions", WG2 Consent Docket, Part 2: Unicode 5.0 Issues
				L2/05-026		Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "WG2 - Unicode 5.0 Consent Docket (B.1.16)", UTC #102 Minutes
				L2/05-279		Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "C.16", UTC #105 Minutes
	U+0CF1..0CF2	2		L2/04-364	N2860	Everson, Michael (2004-10-22), Proposal to add six characters for Kannada to the BMP of the UCS
				L2/05-059		Whistler, Ken (2005-02-03), "2. Kannada additions", WG2 Consent Docket, Part 2: Unicode 5.0 Issues
				L2/05-026		Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "WG2 - Unicode 5.0 Consent Docket (B.1.16)", UTC #102 Minutes
				L2/05-279		Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "C.16", UTC #105 Minutes
				L2/10-167		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-05-05), "1", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
				L2/10-108		Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "Consensus 123-C29", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes, Change the general category and script property of U+0CF1 KANNADA SIGN JIHVAMULIYA and U+0CF2 KANNADA SIGN UPADHMANIYA from "GC=So" to "Lo" and from "Script=Common" to "Kannada" for Unicode 6.0.
				L2/09-342[c]		Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-09), Misrepresentation in Unicode of characters related to the Sanskrit sounds Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya
				L2/13-242		A, Srinidhi (2013-12-24), Representation of Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya in Kannada
				L2/14-053		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), "2", Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals
				L2/14-066		Sharma, Shriramana (2014-02-07), Representation of the Brahmi and Kannada Jihvamuliya/Upadhmaniya Characters in the Code Charts
				L2/17-041		A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-01-22), Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs
				L2/17-127		Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Feedback and Response on L2/17-041: Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs
				L2/17-160		Sharma, Shriramana (2017-05-07), On the glyph changes for Kannada Vowels Vocalic L/LL
				L2/17-153		Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "5. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals
				L2/17-103		Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.6.1", UTC #151 Minutes
7.0	U+0C81	1		L2/10-392R2	N3964	Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-11), Request to encode South Indian CANDRABINDU-s
				L2/10-440		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-10-27), "5. South Indian Candrabindus", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
				L2/10-416R		Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "South Indian candrabindu-s (D.8)", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes
					N4103	"11.2.4 South Indian CANDRABINDU-s", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
9.0	U+0C80	1		L2/14-153	N4591	Rajan, Vinodh (2014-07-18), Proposal to encode Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu
				L2/14-166		A, Srinidhi (2014-07-22), Usage of Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu in Vedic texts
				L2/14-170		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-07-28), "3", Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals
				L2/14-188		Sharma, Shriramana (2014-07-31), Comments on proposal for Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu
				L2/14-177		Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), "Kannada Spacing Candrabindu (D.6)", UTC #140 Minutes
				L2/15-158		Sharma, Shriramana (2015-05-18), Attestations for Sama Vedic usage of 0C80 KANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU
				L2/15-204		Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "5. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals
				L2/16-052	N4603 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.11p", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63
11.0	U+0C84	1		L2/16-031		A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-01-22), Proposal to encode the Kannada sign SIDDHAM in Unicode
				L2/16-004		Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), "D.2.2", UTC #146 Minutes
14.0	U+0CDD	1		L2/20-228R		A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2021-01-07), Proposal to encode Kannada sign Nakaara Pollu
				L2/21-016R		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-01-14), "12 Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #166 January 2021 on Script Proposals
				L2/21-009		Moore, Lisa (2021-01-27), "Consensus 166-C28", UTC #166 Minutes
15.0	U+0CF3	1		L2/20-260		Basty, Shashank Shenoy (2020-08-24), Preliminary Proposal to Encode Kannada Sign Combining Anusvara Right Top
				L2/20-250		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-10-01), "11. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals
				L2/21-114		Basty, Shashank Shenoy (2021-05-10), Proposal to Encode Kannada Sign Combining Anusvara Above Right
				L2/21-130		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-07-26), "9. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals
				L2/21-123		Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), "Consensus 168-C24", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names See also L2/01-303, L2/01-304, L2/01-305, and L2/01-430R See also L2/09-404