The Meroitic Hieroglyphs range was introduced with version 6.1.0 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 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 epigraphic monumental and the other cursive. The epigraphic monumental form was written top to bottom in columns going 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.
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/U10980.pdf.
| Character (decimal) | Decimal | Character (hex) | Hex | Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 𐦀 | 67968 | 𐦀 | 10980 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER A |
| 𐦁 | 67969 | 𐦁 | 10981 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER E |
| 𐦂 | 67970 | 𐦂 | 10982 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER I |
| 𐦃 | 67971 | 𐦃 | 10983 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER O |
| 𐦄 | 67972 | 𐦄 | 10984 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER YA |
| 𐦅 | 67973 | 𐦅 | 10985 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER WA |
| 𐦆 | 67974 | 𐦆 | 10986 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER BA |
| 𐦇 | 67975 | 𐦇 | 10987 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER BA-2 |
| 𐦈 | 67976 | 𐦈 | 10988 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER PA |
| 𐦉 | 67977 | 𐦉 | 10989 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER MA |
| 𐦊 | 67978 | 𐦊 | 1098A | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER NA |
| 𐦋 | 67979 | 𐦋 | 1098B | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER NA-2 |
| 𐦌 | 67980 | 𐦌 | 1098C | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER NE |
| 𐦍 | 67981 | 𐦍 | 1098D | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER NE-2 |
| 𐦎 | 67982 | 𐦎 | 1098E | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER RA |
| 𐦏 | 67983 | 𐦏 | 1098F | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER RA-2 |
| 𐦐 | 67984 | 𐦐 | 10990 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER LA |
| 𐦑 | 67985 | 𐦑 | 10991 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER KHA |
| 𐦒 | 67986 | 𐦒 | 10992 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER HHA |
| 𐦓 | 67987 | 𐦓 | 10993 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER SA |
| 𐦔 | 67988 | 𐦔 | 10994 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER SA-2 |
| 𐦕 | 67989 | 𐦕 | 10995 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER SE |
| 𐦖 | 67990 | 𐦖 | 10996 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER KA |
| 𐦗 | 67991 | 𐦗 | 10997 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER QA |
| 𐦘 | 67992 | 𐦘 | 10998 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER TA |
| 𐦙 | 67993 | 𐦙 | 10999 | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER TA-2 |
| 𐦚 | 67994 | 𐦚 | 1099A | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER TE |
| 𐦛 | 67995 | 𐦛 | 1099B | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER TE-2 |
| 𐦜 | 67996 | 𐦜 | 1099C | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER TO |
| 𐦝 | 67997 | 𐦝 | 1099D | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC LETTER DA |
| 𐦞 | 67998 | 𐦞 | 1099E | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC SYMBOL VIDJ |
| 𐦟 | 67999 | 𐦟 | 1099F | MEROITIC HIEROGLYPHIC SYMBOL VIDJ-2 |
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