Zanabazar square script
Zanabazar's square script is a horizontal Mongolian square script, an abugida developed by the monk and scholar Zanabazar to write Mongolian. It can also be used to write Tibetan and Sanskrit.
It was re-discovered in 1801 and the script's applications during the period of its use are not known. It was also largely based on the Tibetan alphabet, read left to right, and employed vowel diacritics above and below the consonant letters.
Letters
Vowels
Type | Letter | Name | XML entity | Note |
Vowel | ? | A | 𑨀 | |
Vowel sign | ? | I | 𑨁 | |
Vowel sign | ? | UE | 𑨂 | |
Vowel sign | ? | U | 𑨃 | |
Vowel sign | ? | E | 𑨄 | |
Vowel sign | ? | OE | 𑨅 | |
Vowel sign | ? | O | 𑨆 | |
Vowel sign | ? | AI | 𑨇 | or '-I' |
Vowel sign | ? | AU | 𑨈 | or '-U' |
Vowel sign | ? | REVERSED I | 𑨉 | for Sanskrit |
Vowel length mark | ? | VOWEL LENGTH MARK | 𑨊 |
Consonants
Letter | Name | XML entity | Note |
? | KA | 𑨋 | |
? | KHA | 𑨌 | |
? | GA | 𑨍 | |
? | GHA | 𑨎 | |
? | NGA | 𑨏 | |
? | CA | 𑨐 | |
? | CHA | 𑨑 | |
? | JA | 𑨒 | |
? | NYA | 𑨓 | |
? | TTA | 𑨔 | |
? | TTHA | 𑨕 | |
? | DDA | 𑨖 | |
? | DDHA | 𑨗 | |
? | NNA | 𑨘 | |
? | TA | 𑨙 | |
? | THA | 𑨚 | |
? | DA | 𑨛 | |
? | DHA | 𑨜 | |
? | NA | 𑨝 | |
? | PA | 𑨞 | |
? | PHA | 𑨟 | |
? | BA | 𑨠 | or instead of non-initial 𑨭 VA |
? | BHA | 𑨡 | |
? | MA | 𑨢 | |
? | TSA | 𑨣 | |
? | TSHA | 𑨤 | |
? | DZA | 𑨥 | |
? | DZHA | 𑨦 | |
? | ZHA | 𑨧 | |
? | ZA | 𑨨 | |
? | -A | 𑨩 | Mongolian AANG, Tibetan A-CHUNG |
? | YA | 𑨪 | |
? | RA | 𑨫 | |
? | LA | 𑨬 | |
? | VA | 𑨭 | |
? | SHA | 𑨮 | |
? | SSA | 𑨯 | |
? | SA | 𑨰 | |
? | HA | 𑨱 | |
? | KSSA | 𑨲 |
Others
Type | Letter | Name | XML entity | Note |
Final consonant mark | ? | FINAL CONSONANT MARK | 𑨳 | |
Virama | ? | VIRAMA | 𑨴 | for Sanskrit and Tibetan |
Candrabindu | ? | CANDRABINDU | 𑨵 | |
Candrabindu | ? | CANDRABINDU WITH ORNAMENT | 𑨶 | often with 𑨿 |
Candrabindu | ? | CANDRA WITH ORNAMENT | 𑨷 | often with 𑨿 |
Anusvara | ? | ANUSVARA | 𑨸 | for Sanskrit |
Visarga | ? | VISARGA | 𑨹 | for Sanskrit |
Cluster Letter | ? | CLUSTER-INITIAL LETTER RA | 𑨺 | for Tibetan, initial form of 𑨫 |
Cluster Letter | ? | CLUSTER-FINAL LETTER YA | 𑨻 | for Tibetan, final form of 𑨪 |
Cluster Letter | ? | CLUSTER-FINAL LETTER RA | 𑨼 | for Tibetan, final form of 𑨫 |
Cluster Letter | ? | CLUSTER-FINAL LETTER LA | 𑨽 | for Tibetan, final form of 𑨬 |
Cluster Letter | ? | CLUSTER-FINAL LETTER VA | 𑨾 | for Tibetan, final form of 𑨭 |
Head Mark | ? | INITIAL HEAD MARK | 𑨿 | |
Head Mark | ? | CLOSING HEAD MARK | 𑩀 | |
Punctuation | ? | MARK TSHEG | 𑩁 | |
Punctuation | ? | MARK SHAD | 𑩂 | |
Punctuation | ? | MARK DOUBLE SHAD | 𑩃 | |
Punctuation | ? | MARK LONG TSHEG | 𑩄 | |
Head Mark | ? | INITIAL DOUBLE-LINED HEAD MARK | 𑩅 | |
Head Mark | ? | DOUBLE-LINED HEAD MARK | 𑩆 | |
Subjoiner | ? | SUBJOINER | 𑩇 | for producing consonant conjuncts |
Unicode
"Zanabazar Square" has been included in the Unicode Standard since the release of Unicode version 10.0 in June 2017. The Zanabazar Square block contains 72 characters.The Unicode block for Zanabazar Square is U+11A00–U+11A4F: