Cham (Unicode block)

Unicode character block

Cham

Range| U+AA00..U+AA5F
(96 code points)
Plane| BMP
Scripts| Cham
Major alphabets| Eastern Cham
Assigned| 83 code points
Unused| 13 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.1 (2008)| 83 (+83)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Cham is a Unicode block containing characters of the Cham script, which is used for writing the Cham language, primarily used for the Eastern dialect in Cambodia and Vietnam.

A separate block for Western Cham, used in Cambodia, was first proposed to Unicode in 2016. As of May 2022 it is still being finalized.[3]

Cham[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F
U+AA0x  | ꨀ  | ꨁ  | ꨂ  | ꨃ  | ꨄ  | ꨅ  | ꨆ  | ꨇ  | ꨈ  | ꨉ  | ꨊ  | ꨋ  | ꨌ  | ꨍ  | ꨎ  | ꨏ
U+AA1x  | ꨐ  | ꨑ  | ꨒ  | ꨓ  | ꨔ  | ꨕ  | ꨖ  | ꨗ  | ꨘ  | ꨙ  | ꨚ  | ꨛ  | ꨜ  | ꨝ  | ꨞ  | ꨟ
U+AA2x  | ꨠ  | ꨡ  | ꨢ  | ꨣ  | ꨤ  | ꨥ  | ꨦ  | ꨧ  | ꨨ  | ꨩ  | ꨪ  | ꨫ  | ꨬ  | ꨭ  | ꨮ  | ꨯ
U+AA3x  | ꨰ  | ꨱ  | ꨲ  | ꨳ  | ꨴ  | ꨵ  | ꨶ  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
U+AA4x  | ꩀ  | ꩁ  | ꩂ  | ꩃ  | ꩄ  | ꩅ  | ꩆ  | ꩇ  | ꩈ  | ꩉ  | ꩊ  | ꩋ  | ꩌ  | ꩍ  |  |
U+AA5x  | ꩐  | ꩑  | ꩒  | ꩓  | ꩔  | ꩕  | ꩖  | ꩗  | ꩘  | ꩙  |  |  | ꩜  | ꩝  | ꩞  | ꩟
Notes

1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

## History

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

Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document

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5.1 | U+AA00..AA36, AA40..AA4D, AA50..AA59, AA5C..AA5F | 83 |  | N1126 | Cham script [proposal summary form], 1994-10-14
| N1203 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1995-05-03), "6.1.2.2", Unconfirmed minutes of SC2/WG2 Meeting 27, Geneva
L2/97-143 | N1578 | Everson, Michael (1997-04-06), Cham encoding discussion
L2/97-124 | N1559 | Everson, Michael (1997-05-01), Proposal for encoding the Cham script in ISO/IEC 10646
L2/97-288 | N1603 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "8.22", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997
L2/99-081 | N1960 | Everson, Michael (1999-02-01), Response to Ngo Trung Viet on feedback from Cham experts
| N1997 | Nhan, Ngo Than (1999-02-26), Response to Michael Everson
L2/06-257 | N3120 | Everson, Michael (2006-08-06), Proposal for encoding the Cham script in the BMP of the UCS
L2/06-231 |  | Moore, Lisa (2006-08-17), "C.14", UTC #108 Minutes
| N3153 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), "M49.18", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29

1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

## References

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1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
3. ^ "ScriptSource - Entry - Unicode Status (Western Cham)".