Tamil (Unicode block)

See also: Tamil Supplement (Unicode block)

Tamil
Range	U+0B80..U+0BFF (128 code points)
Plane	BMP
Scripts	Tamil
Major alphabets	Tamil Saurashtra
Assigned	72 code points
Unused	56 reserved code points
Source standards	ISCII
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)	61 (+61)
4.0 (2003)	69 (+8)
4.1 (2005)	71 (+2)
5.1 (2008)	72 (+1)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note:

Tamil is a Unicode block containing characters for the Tamil, and Saurashtra languages of Tamil Nadu India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Malaysia. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0B82..U+0BCD were a direct copy of the Tamil characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

Block

Tamil Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

A

B

C

D

E

F

U+0B8x

ஂ

ஃ

அ

ஆ

இ

ஈ

உ

ஊ

எ

ஏ

U+0B9x

ஐ

ஒ

ஓ

ஔ

க

ங

ச

ஜ

ஞ

ட

U+0BAx

ண

த

ந

ன

ப

ம

ய

U+0BBx

ர

ற

ல

ள

ழ

வ

ஶ

ஷ

ஸ

ஹ

ா

ி

U+0BCx

ீ

ு

ூ

ெ

ே

ை

ொ

ோ

ௌ

்

U+0BDx

ௐ

ௗ

U+0BEx

௦

௧

௨

௩

௪

௫

௬

௭

௮

௯

U+0BFx

௰

௱

௲

௳

௴

௵

௶

௷

௸

௹

௺

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Tamil block:

Version	Final code points	Count	UTC ID	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
1.0.0	U+0B82..0B83, 0B85..0B8A, 0B8E..0B90, 0B92..0B95, 0B99..0B9A, 0B9C, 0B9E..0B9F, 0BA3..0BA4, 0BA8..0BAA, 0BAE..0BB5, 0BB7..0BB9, 0BBE..0BC2, 0BC6..0BC8, 0BCA..0BCD, 0BD7, 0BE7..0BF2	61	UTC/1991-056			Whistler, Ken, Indic Charts: Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam
			UTC/1991-057			Whistler, Ken, Indic names list
			UTC/1991-048B			Whistler, Ken (1991-03-27), "III. L. Walk In proposals", Draft Minutes from the UTC meeting #46 day 2, 3/27 at Apple
				L2/01-303		Vikas, Om (2001-07-26), Letter from the Government from India on "Draft for Unicode Standard for Indian Scripts"
				L2/01-304		Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0, 2001-08-02
				L2/01-305		McGowan, Rick (2001-08-08), Draft UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
				L2/01-295R		Moore, Lisa (2001-11-06), "Motion 88-M9", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting #88, The UTC approves changing the general category type of U+0B83 TAMIL SIGN VISARGA from Mn to Lo.
				L2/01-430R		McGowan, Rick (2001-11-20), UTC Response to L2/01-304, "Feedback on Unicode Standard 3.0"
				L2/05-185		Documentation for KSSA as Non-conjunct Consonant and Conjunct Consonant in Tamil, 2005-07-25
				L2/05-180		Moore, Lisa (2005-08-17), "Tamil (C.12.1), KSSA in Tamil (C.12)", UTC #104 Minutes
				L2/10-108		Moore, Lisa (2010-05-19), "B.10.15 [U+0B83, U+0BC1, U+0BC2]", UTC #123 / L2 #220 Minutes
4.0	U+0BF3..0BFA	8		L2/01-375R	N2381R	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-10-11), Proposal to add eight Tamil symbols
				L2/01-420		Whistler, Ken (2001-10-30), "d. Tamil sign additions", WG2 (Singapore) Resolution Consent Docket for UTC
				L2/01-405R		Moore, Lisa (2001-12-12), "Consensus 89-C23", Minutes from the UTC/L2 meeting in Mountain View, November 6-9, 2001
				L2/02-112	N2421	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-03-15), Feedback on Tamil Symbols in PDAM2-10646-1 from the INFITT WG on Unicode
				L2/02-154	N2403	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2002-04-22), "7.11", Draft minutes of WG 2 meeting 41, Hotel Phoenix, Singapore, 2001-10-15/19
				L2/12-106		Sharma, Shriramana (2012-03-17), "2. Tamil", Request for editorial updates to various Indic scripts
				L2/12-147		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken (2012-04-25), "II. TAMIL", Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations to the UTC
				L2/12-150		Ganesan, Naga (2012-05-01), Tamil credit sign (U+0BF7) glyph shape from Printed Books
				L2/12-180		Manivannan, Mani (2012-05-05), Review of Indic-related L2 documents and Recommendations
				L2/12-384		Ganesan, Naga (2012-06-11), Comments on Tamil fractions and Tamil credit sign
				L2/13-028		Anderson, Deborah; McGowan, Rick; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh (2013-01-28), "19.2", Recommendations to UTC on Script Proposals
					N4480	Sharma, Shriramana (2013-09-06), Request to change two glyphs of existing Tamil symbols
				L2/17-424		A, Srinidhi; A, Sridatta (2017-12-08), Changes to ScriptExtensions.txt for Indic characters for Unicode 11.0
				L2/18-039		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai; Cook, Richard (2018-01-19), "ScriptExtensions.txt changes for Indic", Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals
				L2/18-007		Moore, Lisa (2018-03-19), "Action item 154-A120", UTC #154 Minutes, Make script extension changes in version 11.0 as documented in section 6B, pages 6-9 of L2/18-039.
4.1	U+0BB6	1		L2/03-273		Proposal to add Tamil grantha character SHA, 2003-07-29
				L2/03-278		Bhaskararao, Peri (2003-07-29), Review of a Proposal placed before UTC bearing No. L2/03-273, Proposal to encode Tamil SHA
					N2618	Bhaskararao, Peri (2003-09-14), Review of a Proposal placed before Unicode Technical Committee entitled 'Proposal to add Tamil Letter SHA' (L2/03-273)
	U+0BE6	1		L2/04-073	N2741	Kaplan, Michael (2004-02-01), Proposal to add Tamil Digit Zero
5.1	U+0BD0	1		L2/06-184	N3119	Proposal to add Tamil Om, 2006-04-28
				L2/06-108		Moore, Lisa (2006-05-25), "C.23", UTC #107 Minutes
					N3153 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), "M49.5c", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29

See also

• Tamil script
• Tamil Supplement (Unicode block)