Oriya (Unicode block)

Oriya is a Unicode block containing characters for the Odia, Khondi and Santali languages of the state of Odisha in India. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0B01..U+0B4D were a direct copy of the Odia characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Oriya
Range	U+0B00..U+0B7F (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Oriya
Major alphabets	Oriya Khondi Santali
Assigned	91 code points
Unused	37 reserved code points
Source standards	ISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)	78 (+78)
1.1 (1993)	79 (+1)
4.0 (2003)	81 (+2)
5.1 (2008)	84 (+3)
6.0 (2010)	90 (+6)
13.0 (2020)	91 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2][3]

Odia script combines symbols into hundreds of consonant ligatures.

Block

Oriya[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+0B0x

ଁ

ଂ

ଃ

ଅ

ଆ

ଇ

ଈ

ଉ

ଊ

ଋ

ଌ

ଏ

U+0B1x

ଐ

ଓ

ଔ

କ

ଖ

ଗ

ଘ

ଙ

ଚ

ଛ

ଜ

ଝ

ଞ

ଟ

U+0B2x

ଠ

ଡ

ଢ

ଣ

ତ

ଥ

ଦ

ଧ

ନ

ପ

ଫ

ବ

ଭ

ମ

ଯ

U+0B3x

ର

ଲ

ଳ

ଵ

ଶ

ଷ

ସ

ହ

଼

ଽ

ା

ି

U+0B4x

ୀ

ୁ

ୂ

ୃ

ୄ

େ

ୈ

ୋ

ୌ

୍

U+0B5x

୕

ୖ

ୗ

ଡ଼

ଢ଼

ୟ

U+0B6x

ୠ

ୡ

ୢ

ୣ

୦

୧

୨

୩

୪

୫

୬

୭

୮

୯

U+0B7x

୰

ୱ

୲

୳

୴

୵

୶

୷

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 Oriya block:

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	UTC ID	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.0.0	U+0B01..0B03, 0B05..0B0C, 0B0F..0B10, 0B13..0B28, 0B2A..0B30, 0B32..0B33, 0B36..0B39, 0B3C..0B43, 0B47..0B48, 0B4B..0B4D, 0B57, 0B5C..0B5D, 0B5F..0B61, 0B66..0B70	78	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"
				L2/20-055		Pournader, Roozbeh (2020-01-16), Proposed sequences for composition exclusions
				L2/20-015R		Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "B.13.1.1 Proposed sequences for composition exclusions", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162
1.1	U+0B56	1				(to be determined)
4.0	U+0B35, 0B71	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
				L2/02-425		Everson, Michael; Stone, Anthony (2002-11-20), On Oriya VA and WA
					N2525	Everson, Michael; Stone, Anthony (2002-11-21), On Oriya VA and WA, and a proposal to encode one Oriya letter in the UCS
				L2/03-102		Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
				L2/03-101.7		Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Oriya document], 2003-03-04
5.1	U+0B44, 0B62..0B63	3		L2/03-102		Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts
				L2/03-101.7		Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Oriya document], 2003-03-04
				L2/05-063		Vikas, Om (2005-02-07), "Awaiting Updates-Bengali & Oriya", Issues in Representation of Indic Scripts in Unicode
				L2/05-070		McGowan, Rick (2005-02-09), Indic ad hoc report
				L2/05-026		Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "Scripts - Indic (C.12)", UTC #102 Minutes
				L2/07-095R	N3235R	Everson, Michael; Scharf, Peter; Angot, Michel; Chandrashekar, R.; Hyman, Malcolm; Rosenfield, Susan; Sastry, B. V. Venkatakrishna; Witzel, Michael (2007-04-13), Proposal to encode characters for Vedic Sanskrit in the BMP of the UCS
				L2/07-118R2		Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes
				L2/07-196	N3272	Everson, Michael (2007-05-25), Proposal to encode four characters for Oriya and Malayalam
				L2/07-268	N3253 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.23", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
6.0	U+0B72..0B77	6		L2/07-413		Pandey, Anshuman (2007-12-04), Proposal to Encode Oriya Fraction Signs
				L2/08-199	N3471	Pandey, Anshuman (2008-05-05), Proposal to Encode Oriya Fraction Signs in ISO/IEC 10646
				L2/08-199R		Pandey, Anshuman (2008-05-05), Proposal to Encode Oriya Fraction Signs in ISO/IEC 10646
				L2/08-161R2		Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Oriya Fraction Signs", UTC #115 Minutes
				L2/08-412	N3553 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.24d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53
13.0	U+0B55	1		L2/19-005R2	N5023	Evans, Lorna (2019-01-01), Proposal to encode ORIYA SIGN OVERLINE
				L2/19-047		Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-01-13), "11. Oriya", Recommendations to UTC #158 January 2019 on Script Proposals
				L2/19-008		Moore, Lisa (2019-02-08), "D.4", UTC #158 Minutes
				L2/19-286		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2019-07-22), "9. Oriya", Recommendations to UTC #160 July 2019 on Script Proposals
				L2/19-270		Moore, Lisa (2019-10-07), "D.9", UTC #160 Minutes
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