# Kaithi (Unicode block)

Kaithi is a Unicode block containing characters historically used for writing Bhojpuri, Bajjika, Magahi, Awadhi, Maithili, Urdu, Hindi, and other related languages of the Bihar/Uttar Pradesh area of northern India.
Kaithi Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+1108x | 𑂀 | 𑂁 | 𑂂 | 𑂃 | 𑂄 | 𑂅 | 𑂆 | 𑂇 | 𑂈 | 𑂉 | 𑂊 | 𑂋 | 𑂌 | 𑂍 | 𑂎 | 𑂏 |
| U+1109x | 𑂐 | 𑂑 | 𑂒 | 𑂓 | 𑂔 | 𑂕 | 𑂖 | 𑂗 | 𑂘 | 𑂙 | 𑂚 | 𑂛 | 𑂜 | 𑂝 | 𑂞 | 𑂟 |
| U+110Ax | 𑂠 | 𑂡 | 𑂢 | 𑂣 | 𑂤 | 𑂥 | 𑂦 | 𑂧 | 𑂨 | 𑂩 | 𑂪 | 𑂫 | 𑂬 | 𑂭 | 𑂮 | 𑂯 |
| U+110Bx | 𑂰 | 𑂱 | 𑂲 | 𑂳 | 𑂴 | 𑂵 | 𑂶 | 𑂷 | 𑂸 | 𑂹 | 𑂺 | 𑂻 | 𑂼 | 𑂽 | 𑂾 | 𑂿 |
| U+110Cx | 𑃀 | 𑃁 | 𑃂 | | | | | | | | | | | 𑃍 | | |
| 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 Kaithi block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/05-343 | | Pandey, Anshuman (2005-10-25), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in Plane 1 of ISO/IEC 10646 |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/05-368 | N3014 | Everson, Michael (2005-11-06), Towards an encoding of the Kaithi script |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/07-199 | | Pandey, Anshuman (2007-05-21), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in Plane 1 |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/07-418 | N3389 | Pandey, Anshuman (2007-12-13), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in ISO/IEC 10646 |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/08-003 | | Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Kaithi", UTC #114 Minutes |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/08-156 | N3438 | Anderson, Deborah; Pandey, Anshuman (2008-04-11), Request for removal of digits from Kaithi proposal |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/08-194 | | Pandey, Anshuman (2008-05-06), Proposal to Encode the Kaithi Script in ISO/IEC 10646 |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/08-318 | N3453 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.15", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52 |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/08-370 | N3544 | Anderson, Deborah (2008-10-15), Proposal to add three Kaithi punctuation marks |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/08-400 | | Anderson, Deborah (2008-10-29), Information on U+110BD KAITHI NUMBER SIGN |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/08-161R2 | | Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Consensus 115-C18", UTC #115 Minutes, Rescind approval of 10 characters for Kaithi digits, at U+110C0..U+110C9. They will be unified with Devanagari. |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/08-412 | N3553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), "M53.06", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53 |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/08-361 | | Moore, Lisa (2008-12-02), "Consensus 117-C22", UTC #117 Minutes |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/09-070 | | Pandey, Anshuman; Anderson, Deborah (2009-02-01), Comments on Kaithi Punctuation Marks and FPDAM 6 |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/09-071 | N3520R | Anderson, Deborah (2009-02-02), Details on Kaithi punctuation (based on N3389) |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/09-089 | N3574 | Pandey, Anshuman (2009-02-10), Proposal to Encode Section Marks for Kaithi in ISO/IEC 10646 |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/09-003R | | Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), "E.6", UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/09-234 | N3603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03c", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/09-270R | | Anderson, Deborah (2009-08-05), Kaithi Decomposition Questions for Unicode 5.2 |
| 5.2 | U+11080..110C1 | 66 | L2/09-225R | | Moore, Lisa (2009-08-17), "E.3.1", UTC #120 / L2 #217 Minutes |
| 11.0 | U+110CD | 1 | L2/16-097R | | Yang, Benjamin (2016-04-29), Proposal to encode Kaithi Number Sign Above |
| 11.0 | U+110CD | 1 | L2/16-156 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-05-06), "10. Kaithi", Recommendations to UTC #147 May 2016 on Script Proposals |
| 11.0 | U+110CD | 1 | L2/16-121 | | Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "D.13", UTC #147 Minutes |
| 14.0 | U+110C2 | 1 | L2/20-151 | | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2020-06-24), Proposal to encode the KAITHI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC R |
| 14.0 | U+110C2 | 1 | L2/20-169 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-07-21), "12. Kaithi", Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals |
| 14.0 | U+110C2 | 1 | L2/20-172 | | Moore, Lisa (2020-08-03), "Consensus 164-C14", UTC #164 Minutes |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||