# Zanabazar Square (Unicode block)

Zanabazar Square is a Unicode block containing characters from the Zanabazar Square script (also known as "Horizontal square script"), which is an abugida developed by the monk and scholar Zanabazar (1635–1723) to write Mongolian, Tibetan and Sanskrit.

## Block

Zanabazar Square Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+11A0x | 𑨀‎ | 𑨁‎ | 𑨂‎ | 𑨃‎ | 𑨄‎ | 𑨅‎ | 𑨆‎ | 𑨇‎ | 𑨈‎ | 𑨉‎ | 𑨊‎ | 𑨋‎ | 𑨌‎ | 𑨍‎ | 𑨎‎ | 𑨏‎ |
| U+11A1x | 𑨐‎ | 𑨑‎ | 𑨒‎ | 𑨓‎ | 𑨔‎ | 𑨕‎ | 𑨖‎ | 𑨗‎ | 𑨘‎ | 𑨙‎ | 𑨚‎ | 𑨛‎ | 𑨜‎ | 𑨝‎ | 𑨞‎ | 𑨟‎ |
| U+11A2x | 𑨠‎ | 𑨡‎ | 𑨢‎ | 𑨣‎ | 𑨤‎ | 𑨥‎ | 𑨦‎ | 𑨧‎ | 𑨨‎ | 𑨩‎ | 𑨪‎ | 𑨫‎ | 𑨬‎ | 𑨭‎ | 𑨮‎ | 𑨯‎ |
| U+11A3x | 𑨰‎ | 𑨱‎ | 𑨲‎ | 𑨳‎ | 𑨴‎ | 𑨵‎ | 𑨶‎ | 𑨷‎ | 𑨸‎ | 𑨹‎ | 𑨺‎ | 𑨻‎ | 𑨼‎ | 𑨽‎ | 𑨾‎ | 𑨿‎ |
| U+11A4x | 𑩀‎ | 𑩁‎ | 𑩂‎ | 𑩃‎ | 𑩄‎ | 𑩅‎ | 𑩆‎ | 𑩇‎ | | | | | | | | |
| 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 Zanabazar Square block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/10-411 | N3956 | Pandey, Anshuman (2010-10-25), Preliminary Proposal for Xawtaa Dorboljin Script in ISO/IEC 10646 |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/10-467 | | Sharma, Shriramana (2010-11-11), Comments on Soyombo and Xawtaa Dorboljin |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/11-162 | N4041 | Pandey, Anshuman (2011-05-03), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/11-379 | N4160 | Pandey, Anshuman (2011-10-24), Revised Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/13-068 | N4413 | Pandey, Anshuman (2013-04-22), Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/13-086 | | Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-04-26), "5", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/13-085 | | Sharma, Shriramana (2013-04-28), Vocalic R etc in Mongolian Square |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/13-198 | N4471 | Pandey, Anshuman (2013-10-27), Revised Proposal to Encode the Mongolian Square Script |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/13-200 | | Moore, Lisa (2013-11-18), "D.7", UTC #137 Minutes |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/14-024 | N4541 | Pandey, Anshuman (2014-01-22), Proposal to Encode the Zanabazar Square Script |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/14-032 | | Anderson, Deborah (2014-01-25), Differences between L2/14-024 Zanabazar Script proposal and L2/13-198 Mongolian Square |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/14-033 | N4527 | Sharma, Shriramana (2014-01-26), Comments on the Zanabazar Square proposal |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/14-053 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Iancu, Laurențiu (2014-01-26), "19", Recommendations to UTC #138 February 2014 on Script Proposals |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | | N4403 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "10.2.4 Mongolian Square script", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14 |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/14-026 | | Moore, Lisa (2014-02-17), "Consensus 138-C13, 138-C26", UTC #138 Minutes |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | | N4613 | Comment on Zanabazar Square script in ISO/IEC 10646:2014 PDAM2, 2014-09-02 |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | | N4553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.11", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/14-250 | | Moore, Lisa (2014-11-10), "Consensus 141-C14", UTC #141 Minutes, Change the name of character at U+11A29 from ZANABAZAR SQUARE LETTER SMALL A to ZANABAZAR SQUARE LETTER –A. |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | 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+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/15-094 | | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-02-09), Response to Mongolian and Japanese comments on Soyombo and Zanabazar Square |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | 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+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/16-052 | N4603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2015-09-01), "M63.03e", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 63, Rename 11A29 to ZANABAZAR SQUARE LETTER -A |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/15-249R | | Anderson, Deborah (2015-10-17), Summary of Ad Hoc Meeting on Two Historical Scripts from Mongolia (Tokyo, Japan) |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | | N4699 | Anderson, Deborah (2015-10-17), Summary of Ad Hoc Meeting on Two Historical Scripts from Mongolia (Tokyo, Japan) |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/15-246 | | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-10-20), Revised code chart and names list for Zanabazar Square |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/15-248 | | Otgonbaatar, R.; Demberel, S. (2015-10-20), The Comments on Square script & Soyombo encoding project |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/15-262 | | Disposition of Comments on ISO/IEC CD 10646 (Ed.5), 2015-10-26 |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/15-254 | | Moore, Lisa (2015-11-16), "Consensus 145-C17", UTC #145 Minutes, Approve new Zanabazar Square glyph changes, repertoire, code points, and names on the basis of CD2 draft, document L2/15-303. |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/15-337 | | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-03), Proposal to Encode the Zanabazar Square Script |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/15-336 | | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-07), Comments on L2/15-249 regarding Soyombo and Zanabazar Square punctuation |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/15-341R | | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-30), Proposal to encode additional head marks for Zanabazar Square |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/15-342 | | Pandey, Anshuman (2015-12-30), Proposal to Encode a Subjoiner for Zanabazar Square |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/16-037 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), "8.c", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | L2/16-004 | | Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), "D.9.1, D.9.2, D.9.3, D.10.2", UTC #146 Minutes |
| 10.0 | U+11A00..11A47 | 72 | | N4739 | "M64.05i and j", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 64, 2016-08-31 |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||