Phags-pa is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ad ...
containing characters from the
'Phags-pa script promulgated as a national script by
Kublai Khan
Kublai ; Mongolian script: ; (23 September 1215 – 18 February 1294), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the founder of the Yuan dynasty of China and the fifth khagan-emperor of th ...
, the founder of the Yuan dynasty. It was used primarily in writing
Mongolian and
Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...
, although it was intended for the use of all written languages of the Mongol Empire.
Block
The block has six variation sequences defined for
standardized variants.
They use (VS01):
Note that four vowel letters have positional variants:
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Phags-pa block:
References
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Unicode blocks