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Unicode Status for Jurchen

The Jurchen script is not yet in Unicode. The script has a tentative allocation at U+18E00..U+191DF in the Roadmap to the SMP for the Unicode Standard.

A number of proposals for its inclusion have been submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:

  • 2009-01-06 Jurchen Character Repertoire — Jason Glavy (WG2 N3618, L2/09-147)

  • 2009-04-20 Proposal on Encoding Jurchen Script in SMP of UCS characters — China N.B. (WG2 N3628, L2/09-164, L2/09-351)

  • 2009-04-22 Jurchen Ad hoc report — Deborah Anderson (WG2 N3639, L2/09-167)

  • 2009-04-30 Proposal to redefine the scope of Ideographic Description Sequences and to encode four additional Ideographic Description Characters — Andrew C West (WG2 N3643, L2/09-171)

  • 2009-09-29 Additional Information for the Proposal on Jurchen Characters — China N.B. (WG2 N3688, L2/09-352)

  • 2009-10-21 Review of Jurchen Proposal (Documents N3628 and N3688) — UK NB (WG2 N3696, L2/09-349)

  • 2009-10-26 A Quick Response to WG2n3696: Review of Jurchen Proposal (Documents N3628 and N3688) — China N.B. (WG2 N3720, L2/09-418)

  • 2010-01-26 Revised Proposal to Encode the Jurchen Characters in UCS — China N.B. (WG2 N3788, L2/10-101)

  • 2010-04-15 Review of Revised Proposal to Encode Jurchen (N3788) — Andrew West (WG2 N3817, L2/10-125)

  • 2011-05-24 Sources for the encoding of Jurchen — UK via Andrew West (WG2 N4077, L2/11-211)

  • 2017-05-03 Towards an encoding of the Jurchen script and implications for Khitan Small Script — Andrew West, Michael Everson, Viacheslav Zaytsev (WG2 N4795, (L2/17-107)

    • Recommendations to UTC #151 May 2017 on Script Proposals (L2/17-153) (See point 13.)

    • UTC #151 Minutes (L2/17-103) (See C.14 for decision and action items)

  • 2020-02-10 A Supplementary Proposal to Encode the Jurchen Characters in UCS — China NB (WG2 N5131, L2/21-049)

    • Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals (L2/21-130) (See point 19.)

    • UTC #168 Minutes (L2/21-123) (See B.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2023-03-15 Towards an Encoding of the Jurchen Script — Andrew West (L2/23-068)

    • Recommendations to UTC #175 April 2023 on Script Proposals (L2/23-083) (See point C.12.)

  • 2024-06-12 Proposal to Encode the Jurchen Script — Andrew West, Sun Bojun, Zhōnghuá Zìkù (WG2 N5261R, L2/24-139)

    • Recommendations to UTC #180 (July 2024) on Script Proposals (L2/24-166) (See point A.III.6.)

    • UTC #180 Minutes (L2/24-159) (See D.1 Section 6 for decision and action items)

  • 2024-06-12 Proposal to Encode Radicals for the Jurchen Script — Andrew West, Sun Bojun, Michael Everson (WG2 N5278, L2/24-140)

    • Recommendations to UTC #180 (July 2024) on Script Proposals (L2/24-166) (See point A.III.6.)

    • UTC #180 Minutes (L2/24-159) (See D.1 Section 6 for decision and action items)