# Phags-pa (Unicode block)

Phags-pa is a Unicode block containing characters from the 'Phags-pa script promulgated as a national script by Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan dynasty. It was used primarily in writing Mongolian and Chinese, although it was intended for the use of all written languages of the Mongol Empire.

## Block

Phags-pa Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+A84x | ꡀ | ꡁ | ꡂ | ꡃ | ꡄ | ꡅ | ꡆ | ꡇ | ꡈ | ꡉ | ꡊ | ꡋ | ꡌ | ꡍ | ꡎ | ꡏ |
| U+A85x | ꡐ | ꡑ | ꡒ | ꡓ | ꡔ | ꡕ | ꡖ | ꡗ | ꡘ | ꡙ | ꡚ | ꡛ | ꡜ | ꡝ | ꡞ | ꡟ |
| U+A86x | ꡠ | ꡡ | ꡢ | ꡣ | ꡤ | ꡥ | ꡦ | ꡧ | ꡨ | ꡩ | ꡪ | ꡫ | ꡬ | ꡭ | ꡮ | ꡯ |
| U+A87x | ꡰ | ꡱ | ꡲ | ꡳ | ꡴ | ꡵ | ꡶ | ꡷ | | | | | | | | |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points |||||||||||||||||
The block has six variation sequences defined for standardized variants. They use U+FE00 VARIATION SELECTOR-1 (VS01):
Variation sequences for reversed shaping :
| U+ | Character | Base code point | Base + VS01 |
| A856 | Phags‑Pa Letter Small A | ꡖ | ꡖ︀ |
| A85C | Phags‑Pa Letter Ha | ꡜ | ꡜ︀ |
| A85E | Phags‑Pa Letter I | ꡞ | ꡞ︀ |
| A85F | Phags‑Pa Letter U | ꡟ | ꡟ︀ |
| A860 | Phags‑Pa Letter E | ꡠ | ꡠ︀ |
| A868 | Phags‑Pa Subjoined Letter Ya | ꡨ | ꡨ︀ |
Note that four vowel letters have positional variants:
Positional forms of I, U, E, and O :
| U+ | Character | Orientation | Isolate | Initial | Medial | Final |
| U+A85E | Phags‑Pa Letter I | regular | ꡞ | ꡞ‍ | ‍ꡞ‍ | ‍ꡞ |
| U+A85E | Phags‑Pa Letter I | reversed | ꡞ︀ | ꡞ︀‍ | ‍ꡞ︀‍ | ‍ꡞ︀ |
| U+A85F | Phags‑Pa Letter U | regular | ꡟ | ꡟ‍ | ‍ꡟ‍ | ‍ꡟ |
| U+A85F | Phags‑Pa Letter U | reversed | ꡟ︀ | ꡟ︀‍ | ‍ꡟ︀‍ | ‍ꡟ︀ |
| U+A860 | Phags‑Pa Letter E | regular | ꡠ | ꡠ‍ | ‍ꡠ‍ | ‍ꡠ |
| U+A860 | Phags‑Pa Letter E | reversed | ꡠ︀ | ꡠ︀‍ | ‍ꡠ︀‍ | ‍ꡠ︀ |
| U+A861 | Phags‑Pa Letter O | regular | ꡡ | ꡡ‍ | ‍ꡡ‍ | ‍ꡡ |

## History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Phags-pa block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/00-055 | N2163 (pdf, doc) | Sato, T. K. (2000-01-06), Soyombo and Pagba (old Mongol scripts) |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/03-224 | | Baxter, William H. (2003-07-10), Email on 'Phags-pa |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/03-246 | | Quejingzhabu; West, Andrew (2003-08-12), Letter commenting on Phags-pa encoding |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/03-269 | | West, Andrew; Fynn, Christopher (2003-08-16), E-mail questions and answers on Phags-pa encoding |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/03-229R3 | N2622 | West, Andrew (2003-09-18), Proposal to encode the Phags-pa script |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/03-366 | N2666 | Principles on Encoding Phags-pa Script, 2003-10-20 |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/03-374 | | West, Andrew (2003-10-22), Response to N2666 (Principles on Encoding Phags-pa Script) |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | | N2912 | Constable, Peter (2004-01-22), Open Issues on Phags-pa Encoding |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/04-085 | N2706 | Summary of Voting on ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 3696 : Project Subdivision Proposal for ISO/IEC 10646: 2003/Amendment 1, 2004-02-03 |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/04-112 | N2719 | West, Andrew (2004-03-10), Response to Comments on Phags-pa Proposal in N2706 |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/04-134 | N2745 | HPhags-pa script encoding, 2004-04-02 |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/04-174 | N2771 | West, Andrew (2004-06-01), Comments on Chinese-Mongolian joint proposal to encode the Hphags-pa script (N2475) |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/04-275 | N2829 | Chen, Zhuang; Jia, La Sen; He, Xi Ge Du Ren; Tumurtogoo, Domi; Everson, Michael; Sekiguchi; Constable, Peter; Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2004-06-22), Consensus on the encoding of the Phags-pa script in the PDAM code chart |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/04-414 | N2870 | Summary of the Revised User's Agreement Related to Phags-pa Script, 2004-10-25 |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/04-412 | N2869 | Proposal to Encode the Phags-Pa Script, 2004-11-17 |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/04-413 | N2869c | Cover letter to Updated proposal to encode the Phags-pa Script, 2004-11-17 |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/04-415 | N2871 | Some Problems on the Encoding of the Phags-pa Script, 2004-11-17 |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/05-036 | N2922 | Consensus on Encoding Phags-pa Script, 2005-01-25 |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/05-059 | | Whistler, Ken (2005-02-03), "1. Phags-pa", WG2 Consent Docket, Part 2: Unicode 5.0 Issues |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/05-026 | | Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "WG2 - Unicode 5.0 Consent Docket (B.1.16)", UTC #102 Minutes |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/05-219 | N2964 | A User's Agreement Related to Phags-pa Script, 2005-08-05 |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/05-255 | N2972 | West, Andrew (2005-08-17), Glyph Forms for PHAGS-PA LETTER YA and PHAGS-PA LETTER ALTERNATE YA |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/05-257 | N2979 | West, Andrew (2005-09-01), Phags-pa Glyphs |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/05-270 | | Whistler, Ken (2005-09-21), "F. Phags-pa Glyphs", WG2 Consent Docket (Sophia Antipolis) |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/05-279 | | Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "Consensus 105-C29", UTC #105 Minutes |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | | N2953 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.2.1", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15 |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/12-360 | | Esfahbod, Behdad; Pournader, Roozbeh (2012-11-05), Mongolian and 'Phags-Pa Shaping |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/12-343R2 | | Moore, Lisa (2012-12-04), "B.14.5 Mongolian Shaping", UTC #133 Minutes |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/13-146 | N4435 | Suignard, Michel (2013-05-27), Presentation of vertical scripts |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/13-132 | | Moore, Lisa (2013-07-29), "B.1.7 Presentation of vertical scripts", UTC #136 Minutes |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | | N4403 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "11.1.2 Presentation of Vertical scripts (Mongolian and Phags-pa)", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14 |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/18-278 | | Dyi-Yuaan, Lo (2018-08-30), A Glyph Error of 'Phags-pa Alternate YA (U+A86D) |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/18-280 | N5012 | West, Andrew (2018-08-30), Discussion of 'Glyph Error of 'Phags-pa Alternate YA' |
| 5.0 | U+A840..A877 | 56 | L2/18-272 | | Moore, Lisa (2018-10-29), "C.5.1 A Glyph Error of 'Phags-pa Alternate YA (U+A86D)", UTC #157 Minutes |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||