Supported Scripts

The Unicode Character Standard primarily encodes scripts rather than languages. That is, where more than one language shares a set of symbols that have a historically related derivation, the union of the set of symbols of each such language is unified into a single collection identified as a single script. These collections of symbols (i.e., scripts) then serve as inventories of symbols which are drawn upon to write particular languages. In many cases, a single script may serve to write tens or even hundreds of languages (e.g., the Latin script). In other cases only one language employs a particular script (e.g., Hangul, which is used only for the Korean language). The writing systems for some languages may also make use of more than one script; for example, Japanese traditionally makes use of the Han (Kanji), Hiragana, and Katakana scripts, and modern Japanese usage commonly mixes in the Latin script as well.

Arabic
Aramaic, Imperial
Armenian
Avestan
Balinese
Bamum
Bengali
Bopomofo
Buginese
Buhid
Canadian Syllabics
Carian
Cham
Cherokee
Coptic
Cypriot
Cyrillic
Deseret
Devanagari
Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Ethiopic
Georgian
Glagolitic
Gothic
Greek
Gujarati
Gurmukhi
Han
Hangul
Hanunóo

Hebrew
Hiragana
Javanese
Kaithi
Kannada
Katakana
Kayah Li
Kharoshthi
Khmer
Lao
Latin
Lepcha (Rong)
Limbu
Linear B
Lisu
Lycian
Lydian
Malayalam
Meetei Mayek
Mongolian
Myanmar
New Tai Lue
N'Ko
Ogham
Ol Chiki
Old Italic (Etruscan)
Old Persian Cuneiform
Old South Arabian
Old Turkic
Osmanya

Oriya
Pahlavi, Inscriptional
Parthian, Inscriptional
Phags-pa
Phoenician
Rejang
Runic
Saurashtra
Samaritan
Shavian
Sinhala
Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform
Sundanese
Syloti Nagri
Syriac
Tagalog
Tagbanwa
Tai Le
Tai Tham
Tai Viet
Tamil
Telugu
Thaana
Thai
Tibetan
Tifinagh (Berber)
Ugaritic
Vai
Yi

In addition to the above scripts, a number of other collections of symbols are also encoded by Unicode. These collections consist of the following: