DRAFT ISCII-ENCODED TIBETAN CHARACTER SET
Michael Everson
EVERSON at IRLEARN.UCD.IE
Wed Sep 22 16:13:32 UTC 1993
TIBETAN DRAFT CHARACTER NAMES
@ Syllable marker
1000 TIBETAN TSEG
@ Vowel modifiers
1001 TIBETAN CANDRABINDU
= klad-kor
= lekhor
1002 TIBETAN SIGN ANUSVARA
= nga-ro
1003 TIBETAN SIGN VISARGA
= rnam-bcad [sic]
= namchey
1004
@ Independent vowels
1005 TIBETAN LETTER A
1006 TIBETAN LETTER AA
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
1007 TIBETAN LETTER I
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
1008 TIBETAN LETTER II
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
1009 TIBETAN LETTER U
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
100A TIBETAN LETTER UU
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
100B TIBETAN LETTER VOCALIC R
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
100C TIBETAN LETTER VOCALIC L
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
100D
100E
100F TIBETAN LETTER E
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
1010 TIBETAN LETTER AI
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
1011
1012
1013 TIBETAN LETTER O
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
1014 TIBETAN LETTER AU
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
@ Consonants
1015 TIBETAN LETTER KA
1016 TIBETAN LETTER KHA
1017 TIBETAN LETTER GA
1018 TIBETAN LETTER GHA
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
1019 TIBETAN LETTER NGA
101A TIBETAN LETTER CA
101B TIBETAN LETTER CHA
101C TIBETAN LETTER JA
101D TIBETAN LETTER JHA
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
101E TIBETAN LETTER NYA
101F TIBETAN LETTER TTA
1020 TIBETAN LETTER TTHA
1021 TIBETAN LETTER DDA
1022 TIBETAN LETTER DDHA
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
1023 TIBETAN LETTER NNA
1024 TIBETAN LETTER TA
1025 TIBETAN LETTER THA
1026 TIBETAN LETTER DA
1027 TIBETAN LETTER DHA
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
1028 TIBETAN LETTER NA
1029
102A TIBETAN LETTER PA
102B TIBETAN LETTER PHA
102C TIBETAN LETTER BA
102D TIBETAN LETTER BHA
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
102E TIBETAN LETTER MA
102F TIBETAN LETTER YA
1030 TIBETAN LETTER RA
1031
1032 TIBETAN LETTER LA
1033
1034 TIBETAN LETTER WA
1035 TIBETAN LETTER SHA
1036 TIBETAN LETTER SSA
1037 TIBETAN LETTER SA
1038 TIBETAN LETTER HA
1039
103A
103B
103C TIBETAN UNDER RING
103D
@ Vowel signs
103E TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN AA
= aa-chung [sic]
103F TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN I
1040 TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN II
1041 TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN U
1042 TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN UU
1043 TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC R
1044 TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC RR
1045
1046
1047 TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN E
1048 TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN AI
1049
104A
104B TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN O
104C TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN AU
@ Virama
104D TIBETAN SIGN VIRAMA
= srog-med
104E
104F
1050
1051 TIBETAN CANDRABINDU WITH ORNAMENT
=
= datsekthikley
1052 TIBETAN HONORIFIC UNDER RING
1053 TIBETAN LANGCHEN NYOBUM
1054 TIBETAN JNIM ONE
1055 TIBETAN JNIM TWO
1056 TIBETAN HONORIFIC PREFIX
1057 TIBETAN CHUCHENYIGE
1058
1059
105A
105B
105C
105D
105E TIBETAN LETTER FA
105F TIBETAN LETTER VA
1060 TIBETAN LETTER VOCALIC RR
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
1061 TIBETAN LETTER VOCALIC LL
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
1062 TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC L
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
1063 TIBETAN VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC LL
precomposed glyph for Sanskrit compatibility
@ Punctuation
1064 TIBETAN SHAD
= rkyang-shad
x Devanagari danda --> 0964
1065 TIBETAN DOUBLE SHAD
= nyis-shad
x Devanagari double danda --> 0965
@ Numerals
1066 TIBETAN DIGIT ZERO
1067 TIBETAN DIGIT ONE
1068 TIBETAN DIGIT TWO
1069 TIBETAN DIGIT THREE
106A TIBETAN DIGIT FOUR
106B TIBETAN DIGIT FIVE
106C TIBETAN DIGIT SIX
106D TIBETAN DIGIT SEVEN
106E TIBETAN DIGIT EIGHT
106F TIBETAN DIGIT NINE
@ Punctuation
1070 TIBETAN RIGHT BRACE
1071 TIBETAN LEFT BRACE
1072 TIBETAN DITTO
= duyik
1073 TIBETAN COMMA
= tertsek
glyph also used as a Tibetan visarga
1074 TIBETAN RIN-CHEN-PHUNG-SHAD
= rinchen pung shey
1075 TIBETAN RGYAN-SHAD
= druishey
1076 TIBETAN QUADRUPLE SHAD
= bzhi-shad
1077 TIBETAN SINGLE ORNAMENT
= nyi-zla
= goyik
honorific, marks the beginning of texts
1078
1079
@ Additional consonants
107A TIBETAN LETTER TSA
107B TIBETAN LETTER TSHA
107C TIBETAN LETTER DZA
107D TIBETAN LETTER ZHA
107E TIBETAN LETTER ZA
107F TIBETAN LETTER AA
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Note on punctuation: Das 1902 gives the following:
RKYANG-SHAD or TSEG-SHAD: single perpendicular stroke (U+1064 here)
NYIS-SHAD: double perpendicular stroke (U+1065 here)
BZHI-SHAD: quadruple perpendicular stroke (U+1076 here)
TSEG: dot separating syllables (U+1000 here)
Das also appears to unify U+1074 and U+1075 here. Correct nomenclature
should be ascertained.
Hannah 1912 agrees, giving:
RKYANG-SHAD or TSEG-SHAD: single perpendicular stroke (U+1064 here)
[apparently the reason it is called TSEG-SHAD by Das is that if it is
final there is no written TSEG before it, except in the case of NGA,
which always retains a TSEG.] Equivalent to comma.
NYIS-SHAD: double perpendicular stroke (U+1065 here) Equivalent to full
stop.
BZHI-SHAD: quadruple perpendicular stroke (U+1076 here) Equivalent to
paragraph or section marker.
Hannah gives squiggley SHADs and SHADs with two or three dots over them
as glyph variants of the ordinary SHADs. Hanna gives a SHAD with an
o-vowel above as an honorific "indicating a fresh beginning", called
LOTUS-AND-STALK. Hannah's SINGLE ORNAMENT is more elaborate than U+1077
here, having three variants of increasing complexity, composed of
elements from top to bottom:
RADIANCE-GEM-LOTUS-LOTUS
RADIANCE-GEM-LOTUS-LOTUS-LOTUS
RADIANCE-GEM-LOTUS-LOTUS-LOTUS-STALK
The SINGLE ORNAMENT described in these terms would be called GEM-LOTUS.
This LOTUS is not the same as the one in the LOTUS-AND-STALK. If the
SINGLE ORNAMENT is NYI-ZLA, then GEM could be replaced by SUN and LOTUS
by MOON in the ornaments (but not in the LOTUS-AND-STALK shad). Quite
possibly more ornaments should be added. RGYAN-SHAD (U+1075 here) means
simply "ornamented shad". RIN-CHEN-PHUNG-SHAD (U+1074 here) means "gem
body shad". I would appreciate knowing the full forms of the terms for
U+1051 --> U+1057 and U+1072 --> U+1073) in the Vienna Congress of
Orientalists transliteration (used e.g. by Das).
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Michael Everson
School of Architecture, UCD; Richview, Clonskeagh; Dublin 14; E/ire
Phone: +353 1 706-2745 Fax: +353 1 283-8908 Home: +353 1 478-2597
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