Pau Cin Hau (Unicode block)

Pau Cin Hau is a Unicode block containing characters for the Pau Cin Hau alphabet which was created by Pau Cin Hau, founder of the Laipian religion, to represent his religious teachings.^[3] It was used primarily in the 1930s to write Tedim which is spoken in Chin State, Myanmar.

Pau Cin Hau
Range	U+11AC0..U+11AFF (64 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Pau Cin Hau
Major alphabets	Pau Cin Hau
Assigned	57 code points
Unused	7 reserved code points
Unicode version history
7.0 (2014)	57 (+57)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Block

Pau Cin Hau[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

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1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+11ACx

𑫀‎

𑫁‎

𑫂‎

𑫃‎

𑫄‎

𑫅‎

𑫆‎

𑫇‎

𑫈‎

𑫉‎

𑫊‎

𑫋‎

𑫌‎

𑫍‎

𑫎‎

𑫏‎

U+11ADx

𑫐‎

𑫑‎

𑫒‎

𑫓‎

𑫔‎

𑫕‎

𑫖‎

𑫗‎

𑫘‎

𑫙‎

𑫚‎

𑫛‎

𑫜‎

𑫝‎

𑫞‎

𑫟‎

U+11AEx

𑫠‎

𑫡‎

𑫢‎

𑫣‎

𑫤‎

𑫥‎

𑫦‎

𑫧‎

𑫨‎

𑫩‎

𑫪‎

𑫫‎

𑫬‎

𑫭‎

𑫮‎

𑫯‎

U+11AFx

𑫰‎

𑫱‎

𑫲‎

𑫳‎

𑫴‎

𑫵‎

𑫶‎

𑫷‎

𑫸‎

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 Pau Cin Hau block:

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
7.0	U+11AC0..11AF8	57	L2/10-080	N3781	Pandey, Anshuman (2010-02-28), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Script in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/10-092R	N3784R	Pandey, Anshuman (2010-05-22), Defining Properties for Tone Marks of the Pau Cin Hau Script
			L2/10-073R1	N3865R	Pandey, Anshuman (2010-07-26), Allocating the Pau Cin Hau Scripts in the Unicode Roadmap
			L2/10-437	N3960	Pandey, Anshuman (2010-10-27), Preliminary Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/11-104R		Pandey, Anshuman (2011-04-27), Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet in ISO/IEC 10646
				N4017	Pandey, Anshuman (2011-04-27), Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet in ISO/IEC 10646
			L2/11-116		Moore, Lisa (2011-05-17), "D.3", UTC #127 / L2 #224 Minutes
			L2/11-287	N4129	Pandey, Anshuman (2011-07-25), Proposal to Change the Names for Some Pau Cin Hau Characters
			L2/11-298		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2011-07-27), "6. Pau Cin Hau", South Asian subcommittee report
			L2/11-261R2		Moore, Lisa (2011-08-16), "D.9", UTC #128 / L2 #225 Minutes
				N4103	"11.4 Pau Cin Hau alphabet", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
			L2/13-086		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-04-26), "7", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
			L2/13-067	N4412	Pandey, Anshuman (2013-04-27), Preliminary Code Chart for the Pau Cin Hau Syllabary
				N4403 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-01-28), "10.2.3 Pau Cin Hau syllabary - chart", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 61, Holiday Inn, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2013-06-10/14
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
3. Pandey, Anshuman (2011-04-27). "N4017: Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet in ISO/IEC 10646" (PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.