Thai (Unicode block)

Thai is a Unicode block containing characters for the Thai, Lanna Tai, and Pali languages. It is based on the Thai Industrial Standard 620-2533.

Thai
RangeU+0E00..U+0E7F
(128 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsThai (86 char.)
Common (1 char.)
Major alphabetsThai
Northern Thai
Pali
Assigned87 code points
Unused41 reserved code points
Source standardsThai Industrial Standard 620-2529 and 620-2533
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)92 (+92)
1.0.1 (1992)87 (-5)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: Five characters were removed from the Thai block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646.[1][2][3]

Block

Thai[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+0E0x
U+0E1x
U+0E2x
U+0E3x ฿
U+0E4x
U+0E5x
U+0E6x
U+0E7x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
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 Thai block:

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountUTC IDL2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+0E01..0E3A, 0E3F..0E5B87UTC/1991-058Whistler, Ken, Thai, Lao
UTC/1991-048BWhistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "Thai, Lao", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
UTC/1992-xxxFreytag, Asmus (1992-05-12), "B. Indic SC", Unconfirmed minutes for UTC Meeting #52, May 8, 1992 at Xerox
L2/02-017Whistler, Ken (2002-01-14), Character Properties for avagrahas, etc.
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References

  1. "Unicode 1.0.1 Addendum" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. 1992-11-03. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
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