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Imperial Aramaic

U+10840 – U+1085F   (67648–67679)

The Imperial Aramaic range was introduced with version 5.2.0 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.

Imperial Aramaic (also known as Official Aramaic or Reichsaramäisch) developed during c.600 – c.200 BCE and was made the official language of the Persian Empire. Inscriptional Pahlavi and Inscriptional Parthian are descended from it.

Firefox 3.6 can display these characters.

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 Aramaic Imperial Yeb and Aramaic VIIBCE.

To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.

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/U10840.pdf.

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The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 5.2.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2009 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in October 2009.

Created 7th October 2009   Last updated 22nd March 2010