Mongolian is a Unicode block containing characters for dialects of Mongolian, Manchu, and Sibe languages. It is traditionally written in vertical lines , although the Unicode code charts cite the characters rotated to horizontal orientation as this is the orientation of glyphs in a font that supports layout in vertical orientation.

The block has dozens of variation sequences defined for standardized variants.

Block

Presentation forms + Vowels Letter Subset Unicode Isolate Initial Medial Final A Basic 1820 1820 180B 1820 180C colspan="2" E Basic 1821 1821 180B Todo 1844 1844 180B colspan="2" Sibe 185D 185D 180B colspan="2" EE Basic 1827 I Basic 1822 1822 180B colspan="2" Todo 1845 1845 180B colspan="2" Sibe 185E 185E 180B colspan="2" 185E 180C colspan="2" Manchu 1873 1873 180B colspan="2" 1873 180C colspan="2" 1873 180D colspan="2" IY Sibe 185F O Basic 1823 1823 180B colspan="2" Todo 1846 1846 180B colspan="2" OE Basic 1825 1825 180B colspan="2" 1825 180C colspan="2" Todo 1848 1848 180B colspan="2" U Basic 1824 1824 180B colspan="2" Todo 1847 1847 180B 1847 180C colspan="2" Sibe 1861 UE Basic 1826 1826 180B 1826 180C colspan="2" Todo 1849 1849 180B Sibe 1860 1860 180B colspan="2" Longvowelsign Todo 1843 colspan="2"

+ Consonants Letter Subset Unicode Isolate Initial Medial Final NA Basic 1828 1828 180B 1828 180C colspan="2" 1828 180D colspan="2" ANG Basic 1829 Todo 184A 180B Sibe 1862 180B BA Basic 182A 182A 180B colspan="3" Todo 184B PA Basic 182B Todo 184C Sibe 1866 QA Basic 182C 182C 180B 182C 180C colspan="2" 182C 180D colspan="2" Todo 184D 184D 180B GA Basic 182D 182D 180B 182D 180C colspan="2" 182D 180D colspan="2" Todo 184E 184E 180B colspan="2" Sibe 1864 MA Basic 182E Todo 184F LA Basic 182F SA Basic 1830 1830 180B colspan="3" 1830 180C colspan="3" SHA Basic 1831 1878 Sibe 1867 TA Basic 1832 1832 180B colspan="2" Todo 1850 Sibe 1868 1868 180B 1868 180C colspan="2" DA Basic 1833 1833 180B Todo 1851 Sibe 1869 1869 180B CHA Basic 1834 Todo 1852 Sibe 1871 JA Basic 1835 1835 180B colspan="2" Todo 1853 Sibe 186A YA Basic 1836 1836 180B 1836 180C colspan="2" Todo 1855 RA Basic 1837 Manchu 1875 RAA Sibe 1870 colspan="2" WA Basic 1838 1838 180B colspan="2" Todo 1856 FA Basic 1839 Sibe 186B Manchu 1876 1876 180B KA Basic 183A Todo 1857 Sibe 1863 1863 180B colspan="2" Manchu 1874 1874 180B colspan="2" 1874 180C colspan="2" 1874 180D colspan="2" KHA Basic 183B GAA Todo 1858 colspan="2" Sibe 186C colspan="2" TSA Basic 183C Todo 1854 Sibe 186E ZA Basic 183D Sibe 186F 186F 180B HAA Basic 183E Todo 1859 Sibe 186D colspan="2" HA Sibe 1865 ZRA Basic 183F ZHA Sibe 1872 Manchu 1877 LHA Basic 1840 ZHI Basic 1841 colspan="2" CHI Basic 1842 colspan="2" JIA Todo 185A colspan="2" NIA Todo 185B colspan="2" DZA Todo 185C

Extensions for Sanskrit and Tibetan + Vowels Letter Subset Unicode Isolate Initial Medial Final A Basic 1887 colspan="2" 1887 180B colspan="2" 1887 180C colspan="3" 1887 180D colspan="3" I Basic 1888 colspan="2" 1888 180B colspan="3" AH Basic 1897 colspan="2" Half U Basic 18A6 colspan="2" Half YA Basic 18A7 colspan="2"

+ Consonants Letter Subset Unicode Isolate Initial Medial Final KA Basic 1889 colspan="2" NGA Basic 188A 188A 180B Manchu 189B CA Basic 188B Manchu 189C TTA Basic 188C colspan="2" Manchu 189E TTHA Basic 188D colspan="2" DDA Basic 188E colspan="2" NNA Basic 188F colspan="2" TA Basic 1890 colspan="2" Todo 1898 colspan="2" Manchu 18A0 colspan="2" DA Basic 1891 colspan="2" PA Basic 1892 colspan="2" PHA Basic 1893 colspan="2" SSA Basic 1894 Manchu 18A2 ZHA Basic 1895 colspan="2" Todo 1899 colspan="2" Manchu 18A4 ZA Basic 1896 Manchu 18A5 GHA Manchu 189A JHA Manchu 189D DDHA Manchu 189F DHA Manchu 18A1 CYA Manchu 18A3 BHA Manchu 18A8 colspan="2" LHA Manchu 18AA

+ Signs and marks Letter Subset Unicode Isolate Initial Medial Final AnusvaraOne Basic 1880 colspan="3" 1880 180B colspan="3" VisargaOne Basic 1881 colspan="3" 1881 180B colspan="3" Damaru Basic 1882 colspan="3" Ubadama Basic 1883 colspan="3" InvertedUbadama Basic 1884 colspan="3" Baluda Basic 1885 colspan="3" ThreeBaluda Basic 1886 colspan="3"

Variations and vowel separation The Mongolian Unicode block contains its own variation selectors (listed as format controls) for use with the traditional Mongolian alphabet:

Additional variations may be also available for characters according to context or by manually using special characters, namely the zero-width joiner (ZWJ) and zero-width non-joiner (ZWNJ), to select the specific form.

History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Mongolian block:

Version Count UTC ID L2 ID WG2 ID Document 3.0 U+1800..180E, 1810..1819, 1820..1877, 1880..18A9 155 N667 N836 N1011 doc) N1098 N1368 N1383 N1353 N1437 N1438 N1453 N1497 N1515 doc) N1607 N1622 N1603 N1711 N1734 txt) doc) N1703 html, txt) doc) html) N1862 N1865 N1878 N1918 html, doc) N1973 html, doc) N2020 N2003 N2068 N2125 N2126 N2103 N4435 doc) N4752R2 N4753 N4763 doc) N4769 5.1 U+18AA 1 N3041 N3092 doc) 11.0 U+1878 1 N4781 14.0 U+180F 1

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References

External links Unicode Technical Report #54, containing documentation for presentation forms