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Mongolian

U+1800 – U+18AF   (6144–6319)

The Mongolian range was introduced with version 3.0 of the Unicode Standard. Mongolian is the caseless script used for writing Menggu (the language of the Chinese province of Nei Menggu) and for the Manchu, Sibe and Todo languages. It was formerly used for Khalkha, the national language of Mongolia, but is now mainly restricted to religious texts, having been replaced by Cyrillic for other uses. Mongolian is written vertically from left to right. You can see some Unicode Mongolian on Andrew West’s Mongolian Unicode Test Page.

The characters that appear in the first column 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.

Microsoft Windows incorporates support for Mongolian Unicode from Windows Vista onwards.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Code2000, Daicing Bible, Daicing Harmony, Daicing Round, Daicing White, Daicing Xiaokai, Mongolian Baiti, MongolianScript, NSimSun-18030, SimSun-18030 and Sun-ExtA; and in the Macintosh OS X Unicode fonts STFangsong, STHeiti, STKaiti and STSong.

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/U1800.pdf.

The following currency symbol is not in the Mongolian range:

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The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 5.1.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2008 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode ftp site (ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in April 2008.

Created 4th October 1999   Last updated 15th December 2009