Sinhala Archaic Numbers

See also: Sinhala (Unicode block)

For a list of all numerals encoded in Unicode, see Numerals in Unicode.

Sinhala Archaic Numbers is a Unicode block containing Sinhala Illakkam number characters.

Sinhala Archaic Numbers
Range	U+111E0..U+111FF (32 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Sinhala
Symbol sets	Sinhala Illakkam
Assigned	20 code points
Unused	12 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0 (2014)	20 (+20)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Block

Sinhala Archaic Numbers[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+111Ex

𑇡

𑇢

𑇣

𑇤

𑇥

𑇦

𑇧

𑇨

𑇩

𑇪

𑇫

𑇬

𑇭

𑇮

𑇯

U+111Fx

𑇰

𑇱

𑇲

𑇳

𑇴

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 Sinhala Archaic Numbers block:

Version	Final code points[lower-alpha 1]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
7.0	U+111E1..111F4	20	L2/97-018	N1473R	Everson, Michael (1997-03-01), Proposal for encoding the Sinhala script in ISO/IEC 10646 (revision 1)
			L2/97-030	N1503 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1997-04-01), "8.6", Unconfirmed Minutes of WG 2 Meeting #32, Singapore; 1997-01-20--24
			L2/99-010	N1903 (pdf, html, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25
			L2/07-002R	N3195R	Everson, Michael (2007-02-08), Proposal to add archaic numbers for Sinhala to the BMP of the UCS
			L2/07-015		Moore, Lisa (2007-02-08), "Archaic numbers for Sinhala (C.12)", UTC #110 Minutes
			L2/08-007		Inclusion of archaic Sinhala numerals in the Sinhala character code range, 2008-01-07
			L2/08-068		Dias, Gihan (2008-01-28), Archaic Sinhala Numerals
			L2/08-105		Observations on the Encoding of Archaic Sinhala Numerals in Unicode/UCS, 2008-02-05
			L2/08-003		Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Archaic Sinhala Numerals", UTC #114 Minutes
			L2/10-165		Dias, Gihan (2010-05-03), Preliminary Proposal to Encode Sinhala Digits and Numerals
			L2/10-301	N3876	Proposal to add archaic numbers for Sinhala to the BMP and SMP of the UCS, 2010-08-08
			L2/10-312		Dias, Gihan (2010-08-10), Proposal to Encode Sinhala Archaic Numerals and Numbers
			L2/10-337	N3888	Proposal to include Sinhala Numerals to the BMP and SMP of the UCS, 2010-08-19
				N3888-A	Senaweera, L. N. (2010-09-10), Sri Lanka's proposal on Sinhala Numerals for inclusion in Information Technology - Universal Multiple Octet Coded Character Set, ISO/IEC 10646 : 2003
				N3888-B	Unicode Character Properties of Sinhala Lith Illakkam (Sinhala Astrological Digits) and Sinhala Illakkam or Sinhala Archaic Numbers
			L2/10-433		Wijayawardhana, Harsha; et al. (2010-10-23), RE: Background information on the use of Sinhala Numerals (L2/10-337)
			L2/10-416R		Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "Sinhala Numerals", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes
				N3903 (pdf, doc)	"M57.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG2 meeting 57, 2011-03-31
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.