Sogdian (Unicode block)

Sogdian is a Unicode block containing characters used to write the Sogdian language from the 7th to 14th centuries CE.^[3]

Block

Sogdian^[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+10F3x	𐼰‎	𐼱‎	𐼲‎	𐼳‎	𐼴‎	𐼵‎	𐼶‎	𐼷‎	𐼸‎	𐼹‎	𐼺‎	𐼻‎	𐼼‎	𐼽‎	𐼾‎	𐼿‎
U+10F4x	𐽀‎	𐽁‎	𐽂‎	𐽃‎	𐽄‎	𐽅‎	𐽆‎	𐽇‎	𐽈‎	𐽉‎	𐽊‎	𐽋‎	𐽌‎	𐽍‎	𐽎‎	𐽏‎
U+10F5x	𐽐‎	𐽑‎	𐽒‎	𐽓‎	𐽔‎	𐽕‎	𐽖‎	𐽗‎	𐽘‎	𐽙‎
U+10F6x
Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

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

Version	Final code points^[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
11.0	U+10F30..10F59	42	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), "Inscriptional Alphabets (Middle Persian, Parthian) and Sogdian vs. Aramaic", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode
			L2/02-009		Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Sogdian script", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report
			L2/16-158		Pandey, Anshuman (2016-05-09), Preliminary proposal to encode Sogdian in Unicode
			L2/16-216		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), "7. Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals
			L2/17-037		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Ishida, Richard; Misra, Karan; McGowan, Rick (2017-01-21), "14. Sogdian", Recommendations to UTC #150 January 2017 on Script Proposals
			L2/17-016		Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "D.12", UTC #150 Minutes
			L2/16-371R2	N4815	Pandey, Anshuman (2017-01-25), Revised proposal to encode the Sogdian script
			L2/18-115		Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), "B.11.12", UTC #155 Minutes
				N5020 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "6.2.2 and 6.2.3", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

There is a Unicode font encoding Sogdian - Noto Sans Sogdian.

^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
^ "Chapter 14: South and Central Asia-III, Ancient Scripts". The Unicode Standard, Version 11.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2018. ISBN 978-1-936213-19-1.