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Inscriptional Pahlavi

U+10B60 – U+10B7F   (68448–68479)

The Inscriptional Pahlavi 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.

The Inscriptional Pahlavi script was used to write the Sasanians’ own language during the first part of the Sasanian period (224–651 CE), and was used regularly as a monumental script until the fifth century CE. It descended from the Imperial Aramaic script, and was written from 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 Ahuramazda (numerals) and ZH Mono.

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/U10B60.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 2nd December 2010