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Pau Cin Hau Syllabary

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Script details

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Code Qa14
Script type logo-syllabary
Region Mainland Southeast Asian
Status Current
Direction unspecified
Baseline bottom
Case unknown
White space none
Complex behaviors diacritics
OpenType code unspecified
ISO 15924 Numeric Code / Key none

Explanation of script details

Script description

The logographic script of Pau Cin Hau was created to write the Tedim language spoken in Myanmar.

Read the full description…Specifically, it was created to convey the teachings of Pau Cin Hau, a Tedim speaker who founded the Laipian religion. According to Pau Cin Hau, he had a dream in 1902 in which the script was revealed to him. In 1932 the script was revised and the repertoire of approximately 1,000 logographs was reduced to fifty-seven alphabetic letters to form the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet.

This script is not currently recognized by the ISO 15924 standard, but is included in ScriptSource for research purposes. If you have any information on this script, please add the information to this site. Your contributions can be a great help in refining and expanding the ISO 15924 standard. The Script Encoding Initiative is working to support the inclusion of this script in the standard, and contributions here will support their efforts.

Languages that use this script

There are no known languages that use this script.

Unicode status

The Pau Cin Hau Syllabary is not yet in Unicode. The script was previously called the Pau Cin Hau Logographs. The script has a tentative allocation at U+19E00..U+1A2FF in the Roadmap to the SMP for the Unicode Standard.

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