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Gurmukhi

U+0A00 – U+0A7F   (2560–2687)

The Gurmukhi script is used for the Indo-Aryan Punjabi language, which is widely spoken in Pakistan and is also used in parts of India, where it is closely associated with Sikhs. Punjabi can also be written in the Devanagari and Arabic scripts. You can see some Punjabi using Unicode Gurmukhi on the 123BuildIt Multilingual E-commerce Solutions Web site and the Punjabi University Guru Kashi Campus Web site.

Microsoft Windows incorporates support for Gurmukhi Unicode from Windows XP onwards. Users of Macintosh computers running Mac OS 9 can install an Apple Language Kit that provides Gurmukhi suppport in various applications. Mac OS X incorporates support for Gurmukhi from version 10.2 onwards.

Gurmukhi Unicode Web pages with UTF-8 encoding are supported by Internet Explorer 5 (or higher) for Windows, Mozilla, Opera 6 (or higher), and the Safari and iCab Web browsers for Macintosh.

The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.

You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts AnmolUni, AnmolUniBani, Arial Unicode MS, CN-Arial, Code2000, Free Idg Serif, Free Sans, Free Serif, Lohit Punjabi, Raavi, Saab, Saraswati5 and Sun-ExtA; in the Macintosh OS 9 Unicode fonts Gurmukhi MT and Gurmukhi MTS; and in the Macintosh OS X Unicode font Gurmukhi MT.

To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, Apple’s TrueEdit, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.

If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0A00.pdf.

Character
(decimal)
DecimalCharacter
(hex)
HexName
ਠਁ2561ਠਁ0A01GURMUKHI SIGN ADAK BINDI (combined with ttha (ਠ))
ਠਂ2562ਠਂ0A02GURMUKHI SIGN BINDI (combined with ttha (ਠ))
ਠਃ2563ਠਃ0A03GURMUKHI SIGN VISARGA (combined with ttha (ਠ))
25650A05GURMUKHI LETTER A
25660A06GURMUKHI LETTER AA
25670A07GURMUKHI LETTER I
25680A08GURMUKHI LETTER II
25690A09GURMUKHI LETTER U
25700A0AGURMUKHI LETTER UU
25750A0FGURMUKHI LETTER EE
25760A10GURMUKHI LETTER AI
25790A13GURMUKHI LETTER OO
25800A14GURMUKHI LETTER AU
25810A15GURMUKHI LETTER KA
25820A16GURMUKHI LETTER KHA
25830A17GURMUKHI LETTER GA
25840A18GURMUKHI LETTER GHA
25850A19GURMUKHI LETTER NGA
25860A1AGURMUKHI LETTER CA
25870A1BGURMUKHI LETTER CHA
25880A1CGURMUKHI LETTER JA
25890A1DGURMUKHI LETTER JHA
25900A1EGURMUKHI LETTER NYA
25910A1FGURMUKHI LETTER TTA
25920A20GURMUKHI LETTER TTHA
25930A21GURMUKHI LETTER DDA
25940A22GURMUKHI LETTER DDHA
25950A23GURMUKHI LETTER NNA
25960A24GURMUKHI LETTER TA
25970A25GURMUKHI LETTER THA
25980A26GURMUKHI LETTER DA
25990A27GURMUKHI LETTER DHA
26000A28GURMUKHI LETTER NA
26020A2AGURMUKHI LETTER PA
26030A2BGURMUKHI LETTER PHA
26040A2CGURMUKHI LETTER BA
26050A2DGURMUKHI LETTER BHA
26060A2EGURMUKHI LETTER MA
26070A2FGURMUKHI LETTER YA
26080A30GURMUKHI LETTER RA
26100A32GURMUKHI LETTER LA
26110A33GURMUKHI LETTER LLA
26130A35GURMUKHI LETTER VA
26140A36GURMUKHI LETTER SHA
26160A38GURMUKHI LETTER SA
26170A39GURMUKHI LETTER HA
ਠ਼2620ਠ਼0A3CGURMUKHI SIGN NUKTA (combined with ttha (ਠ))
ਠਾ2622ਠਾ0A3EGURMUKHI VOWEL SIGN AA (combined with ttha (ਠ))
ਠਿ2623ਠਿ0A3FGURMUKHI VOWEL SIGN I (combined with ttha (ਠ))
ਠੀ2624ਠੀ0A40GURMUKHI VOWEL SIGN II (combined with ttha (ਠ))
ਠੁ2625ਠੁ0A41GURMUKHI VOWEL SIGN U (combined with ttha (ਠ))
ਠੂ2626ਠੂ0A42GURMUKHI VOWEL SIGN UU (combined with ttha (ਠ))
ਠੇ2631ਠੇ0A47GURMUKHI VOWEL SIGN EE (combined with ttha (ਠ))
ਠੈ2632ਠੈ0A48GURMUKHI VOWEL SIGN AI (combined with ttha (ਠ))
ਠੋ2635ਠੋ0A4BGURMUKHI VOWEL SIGN OO (combined with ttha (ਠ))
ਠੌ2636ਠੌ0A4CGURMUKHI VOWEL SIGN AU (combined with ttha (ਠ))
ਠ੍2637ਠ੍0A4DGURMUKHI SIGN VIRAMA (combined with ttha (ਠ))
ਠੑ2641ਠੑ0A51GURMUKHI SIGN UDAAT (combined with ttha (ਠ))
26490A59GURMUKHI LETTER KHHA
26500A5AGURMUKHI LETTER GHHA
26510A5BGURMUKHI LETTER ZA
26520A5CGURMUKHI LETTER RRA
26540A5EGURMUKHI LETTER FA
26620A66GURMUKHI DIGIT ZERO
26630A67GURMUKHI DIGIT ONE
26640A68GURMUKHI DIGIT TWO
26650A69GURMUKHI DIGIT THREE
26660A6AGURMUKHI DIGIT FOUR
26670A6BGURMUKHI DIGIT FIVE
26680A6CGURMUKHI DIGIT SIX
26690A6DGURMUKHI DIGIT SEVEN
26700A6EGURMUKHI DIGIT EIGHT
26710A6FGURMUKHI DIGIT NINE
ਠੰ2672ਠੰ0A70GURMUKHI TIPPI (combined with ttha (ਠ))
ਠੱ2673ਠੱ0A71GURMUKHI ADDAK (combined with ttha (ਠ))
26740A72GURMUKHI IRI
26750A73GURMUKHI URA
26760A74GURMUKHI EK ONKAR
ਠੵ2677ਠੵ0A75GURMUKHI SIGN YAKASH (combined with ttha (ਠ))

Copyright © 1999–2009 Alan Wood

The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 5.1.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991-2008 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode ftp site (ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in April 2008.

Created 3rd February 1999   Last updated 23rd December 2009

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