# Kannada (Unicode block)

Kannada is a Unicode block containing characters for the Kannada, Sanskrit, Konkani, Sankethi, Havyaka, Tulu and Kodava languages. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0C82..U+0CCD were a direct copy of the Kannada characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

## Block

Kannada Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+0C8x | ಀ | ಁ | ಂ | ಃ | ಄ | ಅ | ಆ | ಇ | ಈ | ಉ | ಊ | ಋ | ಌ | | ಎ | ಏ |
| U+0C9x | ಐ | | ಒ | ಓ | ಔ | ಕ | ಖ | ಗ | ಘ | ಙ | ಚ | ಛ | ಜ | ಝ | ಞ | ಟ |
| U+0CAx | ಠ | ಡ | ಢ | ಣ | ತ | ಥ | ದ | ಧ | ನ | | ಪ | ಫ | ಬ | ಭ | ಮ | ಯ |
| U+0CBx | ರ | ಱ | ಲ | ಳ | | ವ | ಶ | ಷ | ಸ | ಹ | | | ಼ | ಽ | ಾ | ಿ |
| U+0CCx | ೀ | ು | ೂ | ೃ | ೄ | | ೆ | ೇ | ೈ | | ೊ | ೋ | ೌ | ್ | | |
| U+0CDx | | | | | | ೕ | ೖ | | | | | | | ೝ | ೞ | |
| U+0CEx | ೠ | ೡ | ೢ | ೣ | | | ೦ | ೧ | ೨ | ೩ | ೪ | ೫ | ೬ | ೭ | ೮ | ೯ |
| U+0CFx | | ೱ | ೲ | ೳ | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 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 Kannada block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | UTC ID | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | UTC/1991-056 | | | Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | UTC/1991-057 | | | Whistler, Ken, Indic names list |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | UTC/1991-048B | | | Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III. L. Walk In proposals", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | | L2/01-303 | | Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts" |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | | L2/01-304 | | Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02 |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | | L2/01-305 | | McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0" |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | | L2/01-430R | | McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0" |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | | L2/05-137 | | Freytag, Asmus (2005-05-10), Handling "defective" names |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | | L2/05-108R | | Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), "Consensus 103-C7", UTC #103 Minutes, Create a "Normative Name Alias" property and file in the UCD. Populate the property with names from the sections "Typos" and "Bad or misleading names" from document L2/05-137. |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | | L2/06-157 | | McGowan, Rick (2006-05-12), "Proposed Additional Name Aliases (BETA FEEDBACK) [U+0CDE]", Comments on Public Review Issues (January 31, 2006 - May 12, 2006) |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | | L2/06-108 | | Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "B.11.10 [U+0CDE]", UTC #107 Minutes |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | | L2/13-232 | | A, Srinidhi (2013-12-03), Request to change the Unicode chart font for Kannada |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | | L2/14-053 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), "3", Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | | L2/17-041 | | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-01-22), Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | | L2/17-127 | | Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Feedback and Response on L2/17-041: Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | | L2/17-160 | | Sharma, Shriramana (2017-05-07), On the glyph changes for Kannada Vowels Vocalic L/LL |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | | L2/17-153 | | Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "5", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals |
| 1.0.0 | U+0C82..0C83, 0C85..0C8C, 0C8E..0C90, 0C92..0CA8, 0CAA..0CB3, 0CB5..0CB9, 0CBE..0CC4, 0CC6..0CC8, 0CCA..0CCD, 0CD5..0CD6, 0CDE, 0CE0..0CE1, 0CE6..0CEF | 80 | | L2/17-103 | | Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.6.1", UTC #151 Minutes |
| 4.0 | U+0CBC..0CBD | 2 | | L2/01-431R | | McGowan, Rick (2001-11-08), Actions for UTC and Editorial Committee in response to L2/01-430R |
| 4.0 | U+0CBC..0CBD | 2 | | L2/01-405R | | Moore, Lisa (2001-12-12), "Consensus 89-C19", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Mountain View, November 6-9, 2001, Accept the twelve Indic characters with names and coding positions as documented in L2/01-431R |
| 4.0 | U+0CBC..0CBD | 2 | | L2/02-117 | N2425 | McGowan, Rick (2002-03-21), Additional Characters for Indic Scripts |
| 4.0 | U+0CBC..0CBD | 2 | | L2/03-102 | | Vikas, Om (2003-03-04), Unicode Standard for Indic Scripts |
| 4.0 | U+0CBC..0CBD | 2 | | L2/03-101.5 | | Proposed Changes in Indic Scripts [Kannada document], 2003-03-04 |
| 5.0 | U+0CE2..0CE3 | 2 | | L2/04-364 | N2860 | Everson, Michael (2004-10-22), Proposal to add six characters for Kannada to the BMP of the UCS |
| 5.0 | U+0CE2..0CE3 | 2 | | L2/05-059 | | Whistler, Ken (2005-02-03), "2. Kannada additions", WG2 Consent Docket, Part 2: Unicode 5.0 Issues |
| 5.0 | U+0CE2..0CE3 | 2 | | L2/05-026 | | Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "WG2 - Unicode 5.0 Consent Docket (B.1.16)", UTC #102 Minutes |
| 5.0 | U+0CE2..0CE3 | 2 | | L2/05-279 | | Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "C.16", UTC #105 Minutes |
| 5.0 | U+0CF1..0CF2 | 2 | | L2/04-364 | N2860 | Everson, Michael (2004-10-22), Proposal to add six characters for Kannada to the BMP of the UCS |
| 5.0 | U+0CF1..0CF2 | 2 | | L2/05-059 | | Whistler, Ken (2005-02-03), "2. Kannada additions", WG2 Consent Docket, Part 2: Unicode 5.0 Issues |
| 5.0 | U+0CF1..0CF2 | 2 | | L2/05-026 | | Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "WG2 - Unicode 5.0 Consent Docket (B.1.16)", UTC #102 Minutes |
| 5.0 | U+0CF1..0CF2 | 2 | | L2/05-279 | | Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "C.16", UTC #105 Minutes |
| 5.0 | U+0CF1..0CF2 | 2 | | L2/10-167 | | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-05-05), "1", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC |
| 5.0 | U+0CF1..0CF2 | 2 | | L2/10-108 | | Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "Consensus 123-C29", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes, Change the general category and script property of U+0CF1 KANNADA SIGN JIHVAMULIYA and U+0CF2 KANNADA SIGN UPADHMANIYA from "GC=So" to "Lo" and from "Script=Common" to "Kannada" for Unicode 6.0. |
| 5.0 | U+0CF1..0CF2 | 2 | | L2/09-342 | | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-09), Misrepresentation in Unicode of characters related to the Sanskrit sounds Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya |
| 5.0 | U+0CF1..0CF2 | 2 | | L2/13-242 | | A, Srinidhi (2013-12-24), Representation of Jihvamuliya and Upadhmaniya in Kannada |
| 5.0 | U+0CF1..0CF2 | 2 | | L2/14-053 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), "2", Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals |
| 5.0 | U+0CF1..0CF2 | 2 | | L2/14-066 | | Sharma, Shriramana (2014-02-07), Representation of the Brahmi and Kannada Jihvamuliya/Upadhmaniya Characters in the Code Charts |
| 5.0 | U+0CF1..0CF2 | 2 | | L2/17-041 | | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-01-22), Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs |
| 5.0 | U+0CF1..0CF2 | 2 | | L2/17-127 | | Anderson, Deborah (2017-04-19), Feedback and Response on L2/17-041: Request to change glyphs of Kannada letters Vocalic L and Vocalic LL and their vowel signs |
| 5.0 | U+0CF1..0CF2 | 2 | | L2/17-160 | | Sharma, Shriramana (2017-05-07), On the glyph changes for Kannada Vowels Vocalic L/LL |
| 5.0 | U+0CF1..0CF2 | 2 | | L2/17-153 | | Anderson, Deborah (2017-05-17), "5. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals |
| 5.0 | U+0CF1..0CF2 | 2 | | L2/17-103 | | Moore, Lisa (2017-05-18), "D.6.1", UTC #151 Minutes |
| 7.0 | U+0C81 | 1 | | L2/10-392R2 | N3964 | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-10-11), Request to encode South Indian CANDRABINDU-s |
| 7.0 | U+0C81 | 1 | | L2/10-440 | | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2010-10-27), "5. South Indian Candrabindus", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC |
| 7.0 | U+0C81 | 1 | | L2/10-416R | | Moore, Lisa (2010-11-09), "South Indian candrabindu-s (D.8)", UTC #125 / L2 #222 Minutes |
| 7.0 | U+0C81 | 1 | | | N4103 | "11.2.4 South Indian CANDRABINDU-s", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 |
| 9.0 | U+0C80 | 1 | | L2/14-153 | N4591 | Rajan, Vinodh (2014-07-18), Proposal to encode Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu |
| 9.0 | U+0C80 | 1 | | L2/14-166 | | A, Srinidhi (2014-07-22), Usage of Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu in Vedic texts |
| 9.0 | U+0C80 | 1 | | L2/14-170 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-07-28), "3", Recommendations to UTC #140 August 2014 on Script Proposals |
| 9.0 | U+0C80 | 1 | | L2/14-188 | | Sharma, Shriramana (2014-07-31), Comments on proposal for Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu |
| 9.0 | U+0C80 | 1 | | L2/14-177 | | Moore, Lisa (2014-10-17), "Kannada Spacing Candrabindu (D.6)", UTC #140 Minutes |
| 9.0 | U+0C80 | 1 | | L2/15-158 | | Sharma, Shriramana (2015-05-18), Attestations for Sama Vedic usage of 0C80 KANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU |
| 9.0 | U+0C80 | 1 | | L2/15-204 | | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2015-07-25), "5. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #144 July 2015 on Script Proposals |
| 9.0 | U+0C80 | 1 | | L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.11p", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63 |
| 11.0 | U+0C84 | 1 | | L2/16-031 | | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2016-01-22), Proposal to encode the Kannada sign SIDDHAM in Unicode |
| 11.0 | U+0C84 | 1 | | L2/16-004 | | Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), "D.2.2", UTC #146 Minutes |
| 14.0 | U+0CDD | 1 | | L2/20-228R | | A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2021-01-07), Proposal to encode Kannada sign Nakaara Pollu |
| 14.0 | U+0CDD | 1 | | L2/21-016R | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-01-14), "12 Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #166 January 2021 on Script Proposals |
| 14.0 | U+0CDD | 1 | | L2/21-009 | | Moore, Lisa (2021-01-27), "Consensus 166-C28", UTC #166 Minutes |
| 15.0 | U+0CF3 | 1 | | L2/20-260 | | Basty, Shashank Shenoy (2020-08-24), Preliminary Proposal to Encode Kannada Sign Combining Anusvara Right Top |
| 15.0 | U+0CF3 | 1 | | L2/20-250 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-10-01), "11. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #165 October 2020 on Script Proposals |
| 15.0 | U+0CF3 | 1 | | L2/21-114 | | Basty, Shashank Shenoy (2021-05-10), Proposal to Encode Kannada Sign Combining Anusvara Above Right |
| 15.0 | U+0CF3 | 1 | | L2/21-130 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-07-26), "9. Kannada", Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals |
| 15.0 | U+0CF3 | 1 | | L2/21-123 | | Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), "Consensus 168-C24", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168 |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ↑ See also L2/01-303, L2/01-304, L2/01-305, and L2/01-430R ↑ See also L2/09-404 |||||||