Pau Cin Hau (Unicode block)

Pau Cin Hau
Pau Cin Hau
Range	U+11AC0..U+11AFF; (64 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Pau Cin Hau
Major alphabets	Pau Cin Hau
Assigned	57 code points
Unused	7 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0 (2014)	57 (+57)
Unicode documentation
	Code chart ∣ Web page
	Note:

Pau Cin Hau is a Unicode block containing characters for the Pau Cin Hau alphabet which was created by Pau Cin Hau, founder of the Laipian religion, to represent his religious teachings.^[3] It was used primarily in the 1930s to write Tedim which is spoken in Chin State, Myanmar.

Block

Pau Cin Hau^[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+11ACx	𑫀‎	𑫁‎	𑫂‎	𑫃‎	𑫄‎	𑫅‎	𑫆‎	𑫇‎	𑫈‎	𑫉‎	𑫊‎	𑫋‎	𑫌‎	𑫍‎	𑫎‎	𑫏‎
U+11ADx	𑫐‎	𑫑‎	𑫒‎	𑫓‎	𑫔‎	𑫕‎	𑫖‎	𑫗‎	𑫘‎	𑫙‎	𑫚‎	𑫛‎	𑫜‎	𑫝‎	𑫞‎	𑫟‎
U+11AEx	𑫠‎	𑫡‎	𑫢‎	𑫣‎	𑫤‎	𑫥‎	𑫦‎	𑫧‎	𑫨‎	𑫩‎	𑫪‎	𑫫‎	𑫬‎	𑫭‎	𑫮‎	𑫯‎
U+11AFx	𑫰‎	𑫱‎	𑫲‎	𑫳‎	𑫴‎	𑫵‎	𑫶‎	𑫷‎	𑫸‎
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 Pau Cin Hau block:

Version	Final code points^[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
7.0	U+11AC0..11AF8	57	L2/10-080	N3781	Pandey, Anshuman (2010-02-28), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Script in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/10-092R	N3784R	Pandey, Anshuman (2010-05-22), Defining Properties for Tone Marks of the Pau Cin Hau Script
			L2/10-073R1	N3865R	Pandey, Anshuman (2010-07-26), Allocating the Pau Cin Hau Scripts in the Unicode Roadmap
			L2/10-437	N3960	Pandey, Anshuman (2010-10-27), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/11-104R		Pandey, Anshuman (2011-04-27), Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet in ISO/IEC 10646
				N4017	Pandey, Anshuman (2011-04-27), Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/11-116		Moore, Lisa (2011-05-17), "D.3", UTC #127 / L2 #224 Minutes
			L2/11-287	N4129	Pandey, Anshuman (2011-07-25), Proposal to Change the Names for Some Pau Cin Hau Characters
			L2/11-298		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-07-27), "6. Pau Cin Hau", South Asian subcommittee report
			L2/11-261R2		Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "D.9", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes
				N4103	"11.4 Pau Cin Hau alphabet", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
			L2/13-086		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-04-26), "7", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
			L2/13-067	N4412	Pandey, Anshuman (2013-04-27), Preliminary Code Chart for the Pau Cin Hau Syllabary
				N4403 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "10.2.3 Pau Cin Hau syllabary - chart", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14
^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
^ Pandey, Anshuman (2011-04-27). "N4017: Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet in ISO/IEC 10646" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.

[final-4] Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

[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.

[3] Pandey, Anshuman (2011-04-27). "N4017: Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet in ISO/IEC 10646" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.

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