# Manichaean (Unicode block)

Manichaean is a Unicode block containing characters historically used for writing Sogdian, Parthian, and the dialects of Fars.

## Block

Manichaean Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+10ACx | 𐫀‎ | 𐫁‎ | 𐫂‎ | 𐫃‎ | 𐫄‎ | 𐫅‎ | 𐫆‎ | 𐫇‎ | 𐫈‎ | 𐫉‎ | 𐫊‎ | 𐫋‎ | 𐫌‎ | 𐫍‎ | 𐫎‎ | 𐫏‎ |
| U+10ADx | 𐫐‎ | 𐫑‎ | 𐫒‎ | 𐫓‎ | 𐫔‎ | 𐫕‎ | 𐫖‎ | 𐫗‎ | 𐫘‎ | 𐫙‎ | 𐫚‎ | 𐫛‎ | 𐫜‎ | 𐫝‎ | 𐫞‎ | 𐫟‎ |
| U+10AEx | 𐫠‎ | 𐫡‎ | 𐫢‎ | 𐫣‎ | 𐫤‎ | 𐫥‎ | 𐫦‎ | | | | | 𐫫‎ | 𐫬‎ | 𐫭‎ | 𐫮‎ | 𐫯‎ |
| U+10AFx | 𐫰‎ | 𐫱‎ | 𐫲‎ | 𐫳‎ | 𐫴‎ | 𐫵‎ | 𐫶‎ | | | | | | | | | |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points |||||||||||||||||
The block has five variation sequences defined for standardized variants. They use U+FE00 VARIATION SELECTOR-1 (VS1) to denote alternate letter forms:
Variation sequences for alternate forms :
| U+ | 10AC5 | 10AC6 | 10AD6 | 10AD7 | 10AE1 |
| base code point | 𐫅 | 𐫆 | 𐫖 | 𐫗 | 𐫡 |
| base + VS01 | 𐫅︀ | 𐫆︀ | 𐫖︀ | 𐫗︀ | 𐫡︀ |

## History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Manichaean block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 7.0 | U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 | 51 | L2/00-128 | | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-03-01), Scripts from the Past in Future Versions of Unicode |
| 7.0 | U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 | 51 | L2/00-153 | | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-04-26), Further comments on historic scripts |
| 7.0 | U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 | 51 | L2/01-007 | | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2000-12-21), "Manichaean and Christian Sogdian Scripts", Iranianist Meeting Report: Symposium on Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode |
| 7.0 | U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 | 51 | L2/02-009 | | Bunz, Carl-Martin (2001-11-23), "Manichaean script", 2nd Iranian Meeting Report |
| 7.0 | U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 | 51 | L2/03-099 | N2544 | Everson, Michael (2002-12-03), Revised proposal to encode the Manichaean script in the UCS |
| 7.0 | U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 | 51 | L2/04-292 | | McGowan, Rick (2004-07-20), Manichaean Joining Types and Shaping Behavior |
| 7.0 | U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 | 51 | L2/08-025 | N3378 | Everson, Michael (2008-01-28), Revised proposal to encode the Manichaean script in the UCS |
| 7.0 | U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 | 51 | L2/08-271R2 | N3486R2 | Everson, Michael; Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2008-11-01), Proposal for encoding the Manichaean script in the SMP of the UCS |
| 7.0 | U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 | 51 | L2/09-284 | | Pournader, Roozbeh; Anderson, Deborah (2009-08-06), Specifying Joining Behavior for Manichaean Aleph |
| 7.0 | U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 | 51 | L2/09-186 | N3644 | Everson, Michael; Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond (2009-09-30), Revised proposal for encoding the Manichaean script in the SMP of the UCS |
| 7.0 | U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 | 51 | L2/11-123R | N4029R | Everson, Michael; Durkin-Meisterernst, Desmond; Pournader, Roozbeh; Afshar, Shervin (2011-05-10), Second revised proposal for encoding the Manichaean script in the SMP of the UCS |
| 7.0 | U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 | 51 | L2/11-116 | | Moore, Lisa (2011-05-17), "C.10", UTC #127 / L2 #224 Minutes |
| 7.0 | U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 | 51 | | N4103 | "11.10 Manichaean script", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 |
| 7.0 | U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 | 51 | L2/14-026 | | Moore, Lisa (2014-02-17), "C.9", UTC #138 Minutes |
| 7.0 | U+10AC0..10AE6, 10AEB..10AF6 | 51 | | N4553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.02d, M62.02h", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||