Pau Cin Hau script

The Pau Cin Hau scripts, known as Pau

Cin Hau lai ('Pau Cin Hau script'), or Zo tual
lai ('Zo indigenous script') in Zomi, are two
scripts, a logographic script and an
alphabetic script created by Pau Cin Hau, a
Zomi religious leader from Chin State,
Burma. The logographic script consists of
1,050 characters, which is a traditionally
significant number based on the number of
characters appearing in a religious
text.[1][2] The alphabetic script is a
simplified script of 57 characters, which is
divided into 21 consonants, 7 vowels, 9
final consonants, and 20 tone, length, and
glottal marks. The original script was
produced in 1902, but it is thought to have
undergone at least two revisions, of which
the first revision produced the logographic
script.[3]

The logographic script has not been

encoded, but the alphabetic script has
been encoded in Unicode 7.0.

The characters in the script seem to

resemble characters in the Latin script and
in the Burmese
Pau Cin Hau script
script in a way
Direction left-to-
similar to the
right
relationship
Languages Tedim
between Pahawh
ISO 15924
Hmong and both
Lao script and Latin ISO Pauc

script. They are 15924 (263), ​

Pau Cin
glyphically similar
Hau
but encode different
Unicode
phonological values.
Unicode Pau Cin
The script was alias
Hau
designed for the Unicode U+11AC0–U
Zomi language but range
www.unicod
is able to transcribe F/U11AC0.p
other Zo languages, Final Accep
as there are (https://ww

additional letters L2011/1110

abet.pdf)
and tone marks to
represent sounds
present in other Chin languages but not
present in Zomi. The script also had
limited use for Christian literature in the
region, as is evidenced by some Baptist
documents produced in 1931-32 in Burma.

Unicode
The Pau Cin Hau alphabet was added to
the Unicode Standard in June, 2014 with
the release of version 7.0.
The Unicode block for the Pau Cin Hau
alphabet is U+11AC0–U+11AFF:

Pau Cin Hau [1][2]

Official Unicode Consortium code chart (https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U11AC0.pdf) (PDF)

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F

U+11ACx 𑫀‎ 𑫁‎ 𑫂‎ 𑫃‎ 𑫄‎ 𑫅‎ 𑫆‎ 𑫇‎ 𑫈‎ 𑫉‎ 𑫊‎ 𑫋‎ 𑫌‎ 𑫍‎ 𑫎‎ 𑫏‎
U+11ADx 𑫐‎ 𑫑‎ 𑫒‎ 𑫓‎ 𑫔‎ 𑫕‎ 𑫖‎ 𑫗‎ 𑫘‎ 𑫙‎ 𑫚‎ 𑫛‎ 𑫜‎ 𑫝‎ 𑫞‎ 𑫟‎
U+11AEx 𑫠‎ 𑫡‎ 𑫢‎ 𑫣‎ 𑫤‎ 𑫥‎ 𑫦‎ 𑫧‎ 𑫨‎ 𑫩‎ 𑫪‎ 𑫫‎ 𑫬‎ 𑫭‎ 𑫮‎ 𑫯‎
U+11AFx 𑫰‎ 𑫱 ‎ 𑫲 ‎ 𑫳‎ 𑫴‎ 𑫵‎ 𑫶 ‎ 𑫷 ‎ 𑫸 ‎
Notes

1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1

2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

Fonts
Noto Sans Pau Cin Hau supports the Pau
Cin Hau script.

References
1. Pandey, Anshuman (2010-10-27). "N3961:
Introducing the Logographic Script of Pau
 Cin Hau" (https://www.unicode.org/L2/L20
10/10438-paucinhau-logographs.pdf)
(PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC
JTC1/SC2/WG2.

2. Pandey, Anshuman (2013-04-15). "N4412:

Preliminary Code Chart for the Pau Cin Hau
Syllabary" (https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2
013/13067-paucinhau-syllabary.pdf)
(PDF). Working Group Document, ISO/IEC
JTC1/SC2/WG2.

3. Pandey, Anshuman (2011-04-27). "N4017:

Proposal to Encode the Pau Cin Hau
Alphabet in ISO/IEC 10646" (https://www.u
nicode.org/L2/L2011/11104r-paucinhau-al
phabet.pdf) (PDF). Working Group
Document, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2.