# Soyombo (Unicode block)

Soyombo is a Unicode block containing characters from the Soyombo alphabet, which is an abugida developed by the monk and scholar Zanabazar (1635–1723) in 1686 to write Mongolian. It can also be used to write Tibetan and Sanskrit. In addition, this block includes the Soyombo symbol on the flag of Mongolia.

## Block

The Soyombo block was added to Unicode in June 2017 with version 10.0:
Soyombo Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+11A5x | 𑩐‎ | 𑩑‎ | 𑩒‎ | 𑩓‎ | 𑩔‎ | 𑩕‎ | 𑩖‎ | 𑩗‎ | 𑩘‎ | 𑩙‎ | 𑩚‎ | 𑩛‎ | 𑩜‎ | 𑩝‎ | 𑩞‎ | 𑩟‎ |
| U+11A6x | 𑩠‎ | 𑩡‎ | 𑩢‎ | 𑩣‎ | 𑩤‎ | 𑩥‎ | 𑩦‎ | 𑩧‎ | 𑩨‎ | 𑩩‎ | 𑩪‎ | 𑩫‎ | 𑩬‎ | 𑩭‎ | 𑩮‎ | 𑩯‎ |
| U+11A7x | 𑩰‎ | 𑩱‎ | 𑩲‎ | 𑩳‎ | 𑩴‎ | 𑩵‎ | 𑩶‎ | 𑩷‎ | 𑩸‎ | 𑩹‎ | 𑩺‎ | 𑩻‎ | 𑩼‎ | 𑩽‎ | 𑩾‎ | 𑩿‎ |
| U+11A8x | 𑪀‎ | 𑪁‎ | 𑪂‎ | 𑪃‎ | 𑪄‎ | 𑪅‎ | 𑪆‎ | 𑪇‎ | 𑪈‎ | 𑪉‎ | 𑪊‎ | 𑪋‎ | 𑪌‎ | 𑪍‎ | 𑪎‎ | 𑪏‎ |
| U+11A9x | 𑪐‎ | 𑪑‎ | 𑪒‎ | 𑪓‎ | 𑪔‎ | 𑪕‎ | 𑪖‎ | 𑪗‎ | 𑪘‎ | 𑪙‎ | 𑪚‎ | 𑪛‎ | 𑪜‎ | 𑪝‎ | 𑪞‎ | 𑪟‎ |
| U+11AAx | 𑪠‎ | 𑪡‎ | 𑪢‎ | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points |||||||||||||||||

## History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Soyombo block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/98-358 | N1855 | Sato, T. K. (1998-08-21), Addition of Soyombo script on ISO/IEC 10646 |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/99-010 | N1903 (pdf, html, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "9.2", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25 |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/00-055 | N2163 (pdf, doc) | Sato, T. K. (2000-01-06), Soyombo and Pagba (old Mongol scripts) |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/10-399 | N3949 | Pandey, Anshuman (2010-10-30), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Soyombo Script |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/10-467 | | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-11-11), Comments on Soyombo and Xawtaa Dorboljin |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/11-054 | N3986 | Pandey, Anshuman (2011-02-05), Determining the Encoding Model for Soyombo Vowels |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/11-125 | N4026 | Pandey, Anshuman (2011-04-25), Revised Preliminary Proposal to Encode Soyombo |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/11-412 | N4142 | Pandey, Anshuman (2011-10-25), Proposal to Encode the Soyombo Script |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/13-069 | N4414 | Pandey, Anshuman (2013-04-22), Revised Proposal to Encode the Soyombo Script |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/13-075 | | Sharma, Shriramana (2013-04-25), Comments on the proposed Soyombo encoding |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/13-086 | | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-04-26), "6", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | | N4403 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "10.2.5 Soyombo script", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14 |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/15-004 | N4655 | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-01-26), Proposal to Encode the Soyombo Script |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/15-009 | N4653 | Suzuki, Toshiya; Matsukawa, Takashi; Kuribayashi, Hitoshi (2015-01-26), Comments on Proposals of Zanabazar Square and Soyombo Script from Mongolian Experts |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/15-045 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew (2015-01-30), "8. Soyombo", Recommendations to UTC #142 February 2015 on Script Proposals |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/15-094 | | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-02-09), Response to Mongolian and Japanese comments on Soyombo and Zanabazar Square |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/15-017 | | Moore, Lisa (2015-02-12), "D.7", UTC #142 Minutes |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/15-149 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Pandey, Anshuman; Glass, Andrew (2015-05-03), "9. Soyombo", Recommendations to UTC #143 May 2015 on Script Proposals |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/15-249R | | Anderson, Deborah (2015-10-17), Summary of Ad Hoc Meeting on Two Historical Scripts from Mongolia (Tokyo, Japan) |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | | N4699 | Anderson, Deborah (2015-10-17), Summary of Ad Hoc Meeting on Two Historical Scripts from Mongolia (Tokyo, Japan) |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/15-247 | | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-10-20), Revised code chart and names list for Soyombo |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/15-248 | | Otgonbaatar, R.; Demberel, S. (2015-10-20), The Comments on Square script & Soyombo encoding project |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/15-262 | | Disposition of Comments on ISO/IEC CD 10646 (Ed.5), 2015-10-26 |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/15-254 | | Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "Consensus 145-C18", UTC #145 Minutes, Approve new Soyombo repertoire, codepoints, names, and glyphs, on the basis of CD2 draft, document L2/15-303. |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/15-336 | | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-07), Comments on L2/15-249 regarding Soyombo and Zanabazar Square punctuation |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | L2/16-037 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), "8.c, 9", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals |
| 10.0 | U+11A50..11A83, 11A86..11A9C, 11A9E..11AA2 | 80 | | N4739 | "M64.05k", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31 |
| 11.0 | U+11A9D | 1 | L2/16-016 | | Pandey, Anshuman (2016-01-06), Proposal to encode the Soyombo mark PLUTA |
| 11.0 | U+11A9D | 1 | L2/16-004 | | Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), "D.10.1", UTC #146 Minutes |
| 12.0 | U+11A84..11A85 | 2 | L2/15-331 | | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-03), Proposal to encode JIHVAMULIYA and UPADHMANIYA for Soyombo |
| 12.0 | U+11A84..11A85 | 2 | L2/16-037 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), "8. Soyombo", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals |
| 12.0 | U+11A84..11A85 | 2 | L2/17-235 | N4867 | Pandey, Anshuman (2017-07-21), Proposal to encode JIHVAMULIYA and UPADHMANIYA for Soyombo |
| 12.0 | U+11A84..11A85 | 2 | L2/17-222 | | Moore, Lisa (2017-08-11), "D.5", UTC #152 Minutes |
| 12.0 | U+11A84..11A85 | 2 | | N4953 (pdf, doc) | "M66.16g", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23 |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||