Supported Scripts

The Unicode Standard encodes scripts rather than languages per se. When writing systems for more than one language share sets of graphical symbols that have historically related derivations, the union of all of those graphical symbols is treated as a single collection of characters for encoding and is identified as a single script. Each script then serves as as an inventory of graphical symbols, which are drawn upon for the writing systems of particular languages. In many cases, a single script, such as the Latin script, may be used to write tens or even hundreds of languages. In other cases, only one language employs a particular script—for example, Hangul, which is typically used only to write the Korean language. The writing systems for some languages may also use 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.

The scripts currently supported by Unicode 6.2.0 are listed below. Tool tips for each entry specify the version of the Unicode Standard which first supported the script.

Arabic Aramaic, Imperial Armenian Avestan Balinese Bamum Batak Bengali Bopomofo Brahmi Buginese Buhid Canadian Syllabics Carian Chakma 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 Mandaic Meetei Mayek Meroitic Cursive Meroitic Hieroglyphs Miao 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 Sharada Shavian Sinhala Sora Sompeng Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform Sundanese Syloti Nagri Syriac Tagalog Tagbanwa Tai Le Tai Tham Tai Viet Takri 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:

• Numbers
• General Diacritics
• General Punctuation
• General Symbols
• Mathematical Symbols (Western and Arabic)
• Musical Symbols (Western, Byzantine, and Ancient Greek)
• Technical Symbols
• Emoji
• Dingbats
• Arrows, Blocks, Box Drawing Forms, and Geometric Shapes
• Game Symbols
• Miscellaneous Symbols
• Presentation Forms
• Braille Patterns
• Kangxi Radicals

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