The Cypriot Syllabary range was introduced with version 4.0 of the Unicode Standard and is located in Plane 1 (the Supplementary Multilingual Plane). Windows XP and later versions support supplementary characters by default. In Windows 2000, you need to enable support for supplementary characters. These characters cannot easily be displayed in earlier versions of Windows.
Cypriot syllabic writing (also known as Cypro-Minoan) appeared in Cyprus around 700 B.C., and for a few hundred years it was used for writing Greek and some local languages. It was normally written right to left.
The characters that appear in the “Character” columns of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Aegean, ALPHABETUM Unicode, Code2001, EversonMono and MPH 2B Damase.
To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or Apple’s Character Palette.
If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10800.pdf.
Character (decimal) | Decimal | Character (hex) | Hex | Name |
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𐠀 | 67584 | 𐠀 | 10800 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE A |
𐠁 | 67585 | 𐠁 | 10801 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE E |
𐠂 | 67586 | 𐠂 | 10802 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE I |
𐠃 | 67587 | 𐠃 | 10803 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE O |
𐠄 | 67588 | 𐠄 | 10804 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE U |
𐠅 | 67589 | 𐠅 | 10805 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE JA |
𐠈 | 67592 | 𐠈 | 10808 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE JO |
𐠊 | 67594 | 𐠊 | 1080A | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE KA |
𐠋 | 67595 | 𐠋 | 1080B | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE KE |
𐠌 | 67596 | 𐠌 | 1080C | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE KI |
𐠍 | 67597 | 𐠍 | 1080D | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE KO |
𐠎 | 67598 | 𐠎 | 1080E | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE KU |
𐠏 | 67599 | 𐠏 | 1080F | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE LA |
𐠐 | 67600 | 𐠐 | 10810 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE LE |
𐠑 | 67601 | 𐠑 | 10811 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE LI |
𐠒 | 67602 | 𐠒 | 10812 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE LO |
𐠓 | 67603 | 𐠓 | 10813 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE LU |
𐠔 | 67604 | 𐠔 | 10814 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE MA |
𐠕 | 67605 | 𐠕 | 10815 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE ME |
𐠖 | 67606 | 𐠖 | 10816 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE MI |
𐠗 | 67607 | 𐠗 | 10817 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE MO |
𐠘 | 67608 | 𐠘 | 10818 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE MU |
𐠙 | 67609 | 𐠙 | 10819 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE NA |
𐠚 | 67610 | 𐠚 | 1081A | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE NE |
𐠛 | 67611 | 𐠛 | 1081B | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE NI |
𐠜 | 67612 | 𐠜 | 1081C | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE NO |
𐠝 | 67613 | 𐠝 | 1081D | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE NU |
𐠞 | 67614 | 𐠞 | 1081E | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE PA |
𐠟 | 67615 | 𐠟 | 1081F | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE PE |
𐠠 | 67616 | 𐠠 | 10820 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE PI |
𐠡 | 67617 | 𐠡 | 10821 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE PO |
𐠢 | 67618 | 𐠢 | 10822 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE PU |
𐠣 | 67619 | 𐠣 | 10823 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE RA |
𐠤 | 67620 | 𐠤 | 10824 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE RE |
𐠥 | 67621 | 𐠥 | 10825 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE RI |
𐠦 | 67622 | 𐠦 | 10826 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE RO |
𐠧 | 67623 | 𐠧 | 10827 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE RU |
𐠨 | 67624 | 𐠨 | 10828 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE SA |
𐠩 | 67625 | 𐠩 | 10829 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE SE |
𐠪 | 67626 | 𐠪 | 1082A | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE SI |
𐠫 | 67627 | 𐠫 | 1082B | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE SO |
𐠬 | 67628 | 𐠬 | 1082C | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE SU |
𐠭 | 67629 | 𐠭 | 1082D | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE TA |
𐠮 | 67630 | 𐠮 | 1082E | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE TE |
𐠯 | 67631 | 𐠯 | 1082F | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE TI |
𐠰 | 67632 | 𐠰 | 10830 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE TO |
𐠱 | 67633 | 𐠱 | 10831 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE TU |
𐠲 | 67634 | 𐠲 | 10832 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE WA |
𐠳 | 67635 | 𐠳 | 10833 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE WE |
𐠴 | 67636 | 𐠴 | 10834 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE WI |
𐠵 | 67637 | 𐠵 | 10835 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE WO |
𐠷 | 67639 | 𐠷 | 10837 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE XA |
𐠸 | 67640 | 𐠸 | 10838 | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE XE |
𐠼 | 67644 | 𐠼 | 1083C | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE ZA |
𐠿 | 67647 | 𐠿 | 1083F | CYPRIOT SYLLABLE ZO |
Copyright © 2003–2009 Alan Wood
The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 4.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2003 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode ftp site (ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in June 2003.
Created 21st July 2003 Last updated 25th November 2009