Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources

Test for Unicode support in Web browsers

Lisu

U+A4D0 – U+A4FF   (42192–42239)

The Lisu range was introduced with version 5.2.0 of the Unicode Standard, and is located in Plane 0, the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The Lisu script (also known as the Fraser alphabet or Old Lisu alphabet) was invented around 1915 by Sara Ba Thawand and improved by James O. Fraser, and is used to write the Lisu language. The Lisu language is spoken in parts of Yunnan (southwestern China), northern Burma, Thailand and India

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 LisuTzimu and Quivira.

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/UA4D0.pdf.

Copyright © 2009–2010 Alan Wood

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 4th October 2009   Last updated 18th September 2010