Sharada (Unicode block)

This article is about a standard in computing. For the South Asian writing system, see Sharada script.

Sharada is a Unicode block containing historic characters for writing Kashmiri, Sanskrit, and other languages of the northern Indian subcontinent in the 8th to 20th centuries.

Sharada
Range	U+11180..U+111DF (96 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Sharada
Major alphabets	Kashmiri Sanskrit
Assigned	96 code points
Unused	0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.1 (2012)	83 (+83)
7.0 (2014)	85 (+2)
8.0 (2015)	94 (+9)
13.0 (2020)	96 (+2)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Block

Sharada[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+1118x

𑆀

𑆁

𑆂

𑆃

𑆄

𑆅

𑆆

𑆇

𑆈

𑆉

𑆊

𑆋

𑆌

𑆍

𑆎

𑆏

U+1119x

𑆐

𑆑

𑆒

𑆓

𑆔

𑆕

𑆖

𑆗

𑆘

𑆙

𑆚

𑆛

𑆜

𑆝

𑆞

𑆟

U+111Ax

𑆠

𑆡

𑆢

𑆣

𑆤

𑆥

𑆦

𑆧

𑆨

𑆩

𑆪

𑆫

𑆬

𑆭

𑆮

𑆯

U+111Bx

𑆰

𑆱

𑆲

𑆳

𑆴

𑆵

𑆶

𑆷

𑆸

𑆹

𑆺

𑆻

𑆼

𑆽

𑆾

𑆿

U+111Cx

𑇀

𑇁

𑇂

𑇃

𑇄

𑇅

𑇆

𑇇

𑇈

𑇉

𑇊

𑇋

𑇌

𑇍

𑇎

𑇏

U+111Dx

𑇐

𑇑

𑇒

𑇓

𑇔

𑇕

𑇖

𑇗

𑇘

𑇙

𑇚

𑇛

𑇜

𑇝

𑇞

𑇟

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 17.0

History

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

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
6.1	U+11180..111C8, 111D0..111D9	83	L2/05-377	N3245	Pandey, Anshuman (2005-11-21), Request to Allocate the Sharada Script in the Unicode Roadmap
			L2/08-017		Pandey, Anshuman (2008-01-18), Draft Proposal to Encode the Sharada Script in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/08-200		Pandey, Anshuman (2008-05-05), Draft Proposal to Encode the Sharada Script in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/09-104		Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), "E.3", UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes
			L2/09-074R2	N3595	Pandey, Anshuman (2009-08-05), Proposal to encode the Sharada Script in ISO/IEC 10646
				N3703 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.27", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30
			L2/10-330R		Sharma, Shriramana (2010-09-14), Concerning the Brahmi and Sharada characters for jihvamuliya and upadhmaniya
			L2/10-440		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-10-27), "4. Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya characters in Brahmi and Sharada", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
			L2/11-308		Sharma, Shriramana (2011-07-28), A clear policy on encoding OM characters
			L2/12-019		Sharma, Shriramana (2012-01-12), Recommendation against use of 111C4 SHARADA OM for now
			L2/12-028		Anderson, Deborah (2012-01-23), Representation of JIHVAMULIYA and UPADHMANIYA in Sharada
			L2/12-031		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-01-27), "2. SHARADA OM, 3. SHARADA JIHVAMULIYA and UPADHMANIY", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
			L2/12-224		Sharma, Shriramana (2012-07-06), Annotation for 111C4 SHARADA OM
			L2/12-267		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-07-21), "VII. SHARADA", Review of Indic-related documents and Recommendations to the UTC
			L2/13-028		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-01-28), "18", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
			L2/13-074	N4417	Pandey, Anshuman (2013-04-25), Request to reallocate some recently-approved Sharada characters
			L2/15-183R		Pournader, Roozbeh (2015-07-28), Candidate characters for Grapheme_Cluster_Break=Prepend
			L2/15-187		Moore, Lisa (2015-08-11), "Consensus 144-C6", UTC #144 Minutes, Change the Grapheme_Cluster_Break property of the 12 characters listed in L2/15-183R to "Prepend" for Unicode 9.0.
			L2/15-255		A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2015-10-23), Request to change the representative glyph of Sharada Vowel Signs Vocalic L and Vocalic LL
			L2/16-004		Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), "D.3", UTC #146 Minutes
7.0	U+111CD	1	L2/12-171R	N4269	Pandey, Anshuman (2012-05-03), Proposal to encode the SUTRA MARK for Sharada
			L2/12-112		Moore, Lisa (2012-05-17), "D.4.2", UTC #131 / L2 #228 Minutes
			L2/12-291		Pandey, Anshuman (2012-08-01), Request for name change for U+111CD SHARADA SUTRA MARK
	U+111DA	1	L2/11-430R	N4158	Pandey, Anshuman (2011-11-02), Proposal to Encode the Sign EKAM for Sharada
			L2/12-031		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-01-27), "1. SHARADA EKAM", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
			L2/12-007		Moore, Lisa (2012-02-14), "D.4.2", UTC #130 / L2 #227 Minutes
			L2/12-285		Pandey, Anshuman (2012-07-29), Proposal to Reallocate Sharada EKAM
			L2/12-216R		Anderson, Deborah (2012-08-01), Annotation for SHARADA EKAM in nameslist
			L2/12-239		Moore, Lisa (2012-08-14), "Consensus 132-C17", UTC #132 Minutes, Move Sharada Ekam from U+111C9 to U+111DA.
				N4253 (pdf, doc)	"M59.16a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 59, 2012-09-12
8.0	U+111C9	1	L2/12-322	N4330	Pandey, Anshuman (2012-09-27), Proposal to encode the SANDHI MARK for Sharada
			L2/12-343R2		Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "Consensus 133-C14", UTC #133 Minutes
				N4353 (pdf, doc)	"M60.15d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23
			L2/17-247		Whistler, Ken; Iancu, Laurențiu (2017-07-26), Proposed Property Changes for U+111C9 SHARADA SANDHI MARK
			L2/17-222		Moore, Lisa (2017-08-11), "Consensus 152-C5", UTC #152 Minutes, Change the properties for U+111C9 SHARADA SANDHI MARK as documented in L2/17-247, for Unicode 11.0.
	U+111CA..111CC	3	L2/12-147		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-04-25), "IX. SHARADA", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
			L2/12-239		Moore, Lisa (2012-08-14), "D.4.4", UTC #132 Minutes
			L2/12-124R	N4265	Pandey, Anshuman (2012-08-29), Proposal to Encode Signs for Writing Kashmiri in Sharada
				N4353 (pdf, doc)	"M60.15a", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23
	U+111DB	1	L2/12-318	N4331	Pandey, Anshuman (2012-09-27), Proposal to encode the sign SIDDHAM for Sharada
			L2/12-343R2		Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "Consensus 133-C14", UTC #133 Minutes
				N4353 (pdf, doc)	"M60.15c", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23
			L2/13-132		Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "Consensus 136-C14", UTC #136 Minutes, Move characters...
				N4403 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "9.2.1 Reallocating recently approved characters within the Sharada block", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14
	U+111DC	1	L2/12-324	N4337	Pandey, Anshuman (2012-09-29), Proposal to encode the HEADSTROKE for Sharada
			L2/12-343R2		Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "Consensus 133-C14", UTC #133 Minutes
				N4353 (pdf, doc)	"M60.15b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23
			L2/13-132		Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "Consensus 136-C14", UTC #136 Minutes, Move characters...
				N4403 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "9.2.1 Reallocating recently approved characters within the Sharada block", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14
	U+111DD	1	L2/12-319	N4329 (pdf, doc)	Pandey, Anshuman (2012-09-27), Proposal to encode the CONTINUATION SIGN for Sharada
			L2/12-343R2		Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "Consensus 133-C14", UTC #133 Minutes
				N4353 (pdf, doc)	"M60.15e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23
			L2/13-132		Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "Consensus 136-C14", UTC #136 Minutes, Move characters...
				N4403 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "9.2.1 Reallocating recently approved characters within the Sharada block", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14
	U+111DE..111DF	2	L2/12-325	N4338	Pandey, Anshuman (2012-09-30), Proposal to encode section marks for Sharada
			L2/12-343R2		Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "Consensus 133-C14", UTC #133 Minutes
				N4353 (pdf, doc)	"M60.15f", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 60, 2013-05-23
			L2/13-132		Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "Consensus 136-C14", UTC #136 Minutes, Move characters...
				N4403 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "9.2.1 Reallocating recently approved characters within the Sharada block", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14
13.0	U+111CE	1	L2/17-214R	N4931	A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-10-13), Proposal to encode the Prishthamatra for Sharada
			L2/17-255		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2017-07-28), "10. Nandinagari", Recommendations to UTC #152 July-August 2017 on Script Proposals
			L2/18-039		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Cook, Richard (2018-01-19), "15. Nandinagari", Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals
			L2/18-115		Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "D.5.2", UTC #155 Minutes
				N5020 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.4", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
	U+111CF	1	L2/17-428	N4930	Pandey, Anshuman (2017-12-14), Proposal to encode the INVERTED CANDRABINDU for Sharada
			L2/18-039		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Cook, Richard (2018-01-19), "b. INVERTED CANDRABINDU for Sharada", Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals
			L2/18-115		Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "D.15", UTC #155 Minutes
				N5020 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

• Sharada Supplement (Unicode block)