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Unicode Status for Jurchen

In The Unicode Standard, Jurchen script implementation is discussed in Chapter 18: East Asia.

Blocks

Section titled “Blocks”

The Jurchen script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 18.0. The script is encoded in the following blocks:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Jurchen18E00..1919F18.0U18E00
Jurchen Radicals191A0..191DF18.0U191A0

Proposals and documents

Section titled “Proposals and documents”

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)
  • 2025-05-22 Proposal to encode Jurchen Small Script characters — Viacheslav Zaytsev, Andrew West (L2/25-152)
  • 2025-06-10 Technical update on Proposal to encode Jurchen Small Script characters — Viacheslav Zaytsev, Andrew West (L2/25-164)
    • Recommendations to UTC #184 (July 2025) on Script Proposals (L2/25-187) (See point 1.2.)
    • UTC #184 Minutes (L2/25-181) (See D.1 1.2 for decision and action items)
  • 2025-06-24 Request to rename Jurchen to Jurchen Large Script (WG2 N5338) — Viacheslav Zaytsev, Andrew West (L2/25-171)
    • Recommendations to UTC #184 (July 2025) on Script Proposals (L2/25-187) (See point 3.9.)
    • UTC #184 Minutes (L2/25-181) (See D.1 3.9 for decision and action items)
  • 2026-02-13 Accumulated Feedback: PRI #536: Jurchen U+18E49 stroke count — Philippe Verdy (ID20260213130257)
    • Recommendations to UTC #187 (April 2026) on Script Proposals (L2/26-100) (See point 6.5)
    • UTC #187 Minutes (L2/26-003) (See D.1 6.5 for decision and action items)