Sharada

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Sharada is a Unicode block that encodes the historic Brahmic script once used for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri in the northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Sharada canonical 6

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Unicode block ⓘ
associatedLanguage Kashmiri ⓘ
linked to: Kashmiri language

Prakrit ⓘ
Sanskrit ⓘ
Sharda literature ⓘ
blockContains Sharada digits ⓘ
Sharada letters ⓘ
Sharada punctuation marks ⓘ
Sharada vowel signs ⓘ
blockName Sharada ⓘ
blockRangeEnd U+111DF ⓘ
blockRangeStart U+11180 ⓘ
encodedIn Unicode Standard ⓘ
hasCombiningMarks yes ⓘ
hasConsonants yes ⓘ
hasDigits yes ⓘ
hasIndependentVowels yes ⓘ
introducedInUnicodeVersion Unicode 6.1 ⓘ
plane Supplementary Multilingual Plane ⓘ
primaryGeographicAssociation Kashmir Valley ⓘ
region northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent ⓘ
relatedScript Devanagari ⓘ
linked to: Devanagari script

Gurmukhi ⓘ
Takri ⓘ
linked to: Takri script
scriptCategory abugida ⓘ
scriptFamily Brahmic ⓘ
linked to: Brahmic scripts
scriptOrigin Gupta script ⓘ
scriptStatus historic ⓘ
scriptType Brahmic script ⓘ
linked to: Brahmic scripts
scriptUsage Kashmiri ⓘ
Sanskrit ⓘ
standardizedBy Unicode Consortium ⓘ
timePeriodOfUse early 8th century CE onward ⓘ
usedFor administrative documents ⓘ
manuscripts ⓘ
religious texts ⓘ
usedHistoricallyIn Kashmir ⓘ
northwestern India ⓘ
writingDirection left-to-right ⓘ
writingSystem Sharada script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sharada → blockName → Sharada ⓘ
Unicode 7.0 → addsBlock → Sharada ⓘ
Unicode 6.1 → addsScript → Sharada ⓘ
Takr → relatedScript → Sharada ⓘ