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Meroitic Hieroglyphs Unicode Characters

Script: Meroitic Hieroglyphs (Mero) 32 matching characters +1 in Script_Extensions

The Meroitic Hieroglyphs script (ISO 15924 code Mero) is an official Unicode writing system defined in UAX #24.

Script vs. Block Distinction: In the Unicode Standard, a Script identifies a functional writing system and frequently spans multiple distinct blocks (e.g. Meroitic Hieroglyphs characters appear across 1 blocks). Conversely, a Block is merely a contiguous geometric range of code points that may contain characters belonging to different scripts.

Shared Characters in Script_Extensions (1)

These characters are functionally used with Meroitic Hieroglyphs, but their primary Unicode Script property is assigned to another writing system (such as Common or Inherited). In regular expressions, match both primary and shared characters using \p{scx=Mero}.

U+205D TRICOLON Primary: Common

Unicode Block Distribution

Characters belonging to the Meroitic Hieroglyphs script are distributed across 1 distinct Unicode blocks.

General Category Breakdown

Typological distribution of Meroitic Hieroglyphs characters across formal Unicode general categories.

Unicode Version Additions

Timeline of when characters in the Meroitic Hieroglyphs script were standardized in Unicode.

Character properties, formal aliases (Mero), block distributions, and Script_Extensions relationships for the Meroitic Hieroglyphs script are compiled directly from the official Unicode Character Database (UCD 17.0.0) per Unicode Standard Annex #24 published by the Unicode Consortium. For methodology and citation details, visit Data Sources.