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Unicode Status for Oracle Bone

The Oracle Bone script (also called Old Hanzi) is not yet in Unicode. The script is referenced, but without an allocation, in the Roadmap to the TIP for the Unicode Standard.

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

  • 2003-11-16 China’s Old Hanzi encoding proposal — China N.B. (L2/03-450)

  • 2003-11-19 IRG N1014 - Draft Agreement on Old Hanzi Encoding — LI Guoying, Tom Bishop (WG2 N2684, L2/03-452)

  • 2011-05-13 Request for comments on font-making of oracle-bone scripts — Taiwan (WG2 N4048, L2/11-194)

  • 2013-06-10 Status of encoding of Oracle Bone scripts — TCA (WG2 N4443, WG2 N4443.doc)

  • 2015-10-21 Request for comment on encoding Oracle Bone Script — TCA, China N.B. (WG2 N4687, L2/15-280)

  • 2019-06-13 Re propose the Oracle Bone encoding in 2020 — TCA, China NB (WG2 N5090, L2/19-223)