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 3

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Statements (40)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Unicode block
associatedLanguage Kashmiri language
surface form: Kashmiri

Prakrit
Sanskrit
Sharda literature
blockContains Sharada digits
Sharada letters
Sharada punctuation marks
Sharada vowel signs
blockName Sharada self-link
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 script
surface form: Devanagari

Gurmukhi
Takri script
surface form: Takri
scriptCategory abugida
scriptFamily Brahmic scripts
surface form: Brahmic
scriptOrigin Gupta script
scriptStatus historic
scriptType Brahmic scripts
surface form: Brahmic script
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

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Referenced by (3)

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

Sharada blockName Sharada self-link
Unicode 7.0 addsBlock Sharada