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Phoenician Unicode Characters

Script: Phoenician (Phnx) 29 matching characters

The Phoenician script (ISO 15924 code Phnx) 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. Phoenician 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.

Unicode Block Distribution

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

General Category Breakdown

Typological distribution of Phoenician characters across formal Unicode general categories.

Unicode Version Additions

Timeline of when characters in the Phoenician script were standardized in Unicode.

Character properties, formal aliases (Phnx), block distributions, and Script_Extensions relationships for the Phoenician script are compiled directly from the official Unicode Character Database (UCD 18.0.0) per Unicode Standard Annex #24 published by the Unicode Consortium. For methodology and citation details, visit Data Sources.