Phoenician block

E453711

The Phoenician block is a range of Unicode code points dedicated to representing the characters of the ancient Phoenician alphabet used in the Eastern Mediterranean.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Phoenician block canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Unicode block ⓘ
assignedInUnicodeVersion Unicode 5.0 ⓘ
belongsToStandardBody Unicode Consortium ⓘ
blockCode Phoenician ⓘ
blockName Phoenician ⓘ
characterCount 29 ⓘ
containsCharacterCategory letters ⓘ
numbers ⓘ
punctuation ⓘ
containsRepresentativeCharacter U+10900 PHOENICIAN LETTER ALF ⓘ
U+10915 PHOENICIAN NUMBER ONE ⓘ
U+1091F PHOENICIAN WORD SEPARATOR ⓘ
definedByStandard The Unicode Standard ⓘ
directionality right-to-left ⓘ
encodingModel one character per consonant letter ⓘ
encodingPurpose historic script ⓘ
geographicUsageRegion Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ
Levant ⓘ
linked to: Levant region
hasGeneralCategory Letter ⓘ
Number ⓘ
Punctuation ⓘ
hasISO15924Code Phnx ⓘ
hasUnicodePropertyScriptValue Phoenician ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician alphabet
notUsedFor modern everyday writing ⓘ
numericSystemType additive numeral system ⓘ
plane Supplementary Multilingual Plane ⓘ
primaryUse epigraphic transcription ⓘ
scholarly study ⓘ
proposalDocument N2746 ⓘ
relatedScript Aramaic script ⓘ
Greek script ⓘ
Hebrew script ⓘ
script Phoenician ⓘ
linked to: Phoenician language
scriptAge Bronze Age ⓘ
Iron Age ⓘ
scriptDirection right-to-left ⓘ
standardizedVariantSupport no ⓘ
unicodeRangeEnd U+1091F ⓘ
unicodeRangeStart U+10900 ⓘ
usageStatus historic ⓘ
usedForLanguage Canaanite languages ⓘ
Phoenician language ⓘ
Punic language ⓘ
writingSystemFamily Northwest Semitic scripts ⓘ
linked to: Northwest Semitic
writingSystemType abjad ⓘ

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

Supplementary Multilingual Plane → contains → Phoenician block ⓘ