The Meroitic Cursive range was introduced with version 6.1.0 of the Unicode Standard, and is located in Plane 0, the Basic Multilingual Plane.
The Meroitic script was used to write the Meroitic language of the Kingdom of Meroë in what is now Sudan. The script existed in 2 forms, one cursive and the other epigraphic monumental. The cursive form was written right to left, top to bottom.
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.
There are no Unicode fonts designed specifically for Meroitic.
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/U109A0.pdf.
| Character (decimal) | Decimal | Character (hex) | Hex | Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 𐦠 | 68000 | 𐦠 | 109A0 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER A |
| 𐦡 | 68001 | 𐦡 | 109A1 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER E |
| 𐦢 | 68002 | 𐦢 | 109A2 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER I |
| 𐦣 | 68003 | 𐦣 | 109A3 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER O |
| 𐦤 | 68004 | 𐦤 | 109A4 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER YA |
| 𐦥 | 68005 | 𐦥 | 109A5 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER WA |
| 𐦦 | 68006 | 𐦦 | 109A6 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER BA |
| 𐦧 | 68007 | 𐦧 | 109A7 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER PA |
| 𐦨 | 68008 | 𐦨 | 109A8 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER MA |
| 𐦩 | 68009 | 𐦩 | 109A9 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER NA |
| 𐦪 | 68010 | 𐦪 | 109AA | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER NE |
| 𐦫 | 68011 | 𐦫 | 109AB | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER RA |
| 𐦬 | 68012 | 𐦬 | 109AC | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER LA |
| 𐦭 | 68013 | 𐦭 | 109AD | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER KHA |
| 𐦮 | 68014 | 𐦮 | 109AE | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER HHA |
| 𐦯 | 68015 | 𐦯 | 109AF | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER SA |
| 𐦰 | 68016 | 𐦰 | 109B0 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER ARCHAIC SA |
| 𐦱 | 68017 | 𐦱 | 109B1 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER SE |
| 𐦲 | 68018 | 𐦲 | 109B2 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER KA |
| 𐦳 | 68019 | 𐦳 | 109B3 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER QA |
| 𐦴 | 68020 | 𐦴 | 109B4 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER TA |
| 𐦵 | 68021 | 𐦵 | 109B5 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER TE |
| 𐦶 | 68022 | 𐦶 | 109B6 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER TO |
| 𐦷 | 68023 | 𐦷 | 109B7 | MEROITIC CURSIVE LETTER DA |
| 𐦾 | 68030 | 𐦾 | 109BE | MEROITIC CURSIVE LOGOGRAM RMT |
| 𐦿 | 68031 | 𐦿 | 109BF | MEROITIC CURSIVE LOGOGRAM IMN |
Copyright © 2012 Alan Wood
The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 6.1.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2012 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in January 2012.
Created 15th November 2012 Last updated 23rd November 2012