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It consists of a short sequence of <a href="/wiki/Character_(computing)" title="Character (computing)">characters</a> that, in turn, represents a single character. Since <a href="/wiki/SGML" class="mw-redirect" title="SGML">WebSgml</a>, <a href="/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a> and <a href="/wiki/HTML_4" class="mw-redirect" title="HTML 4">HTML 4</a>, the code points of the <a href="/wiki/Universal_Character_Set" class="mw-redirect" title="Universal Character Set">Universal Character Set</a> (UCS) of <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> are used. NCRs are typically used in order to represent characters that are not <a href="/wiki/Plain_text#Encoding" title="Plain text">directly encodable</a> in a particular document (for example, because they are international characters that do not fit in the 8-bit <a href="/wiki/Character_encoding" title="Character encoding">character set</a> being used, or because they have special syntactic meaning in the language). When the document is interpreted by a markup-aware reader, each NCR is treated as if it were the character it represents. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Examples">Examples</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Numeric_character_reference&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Examples"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In SGML, HTML, and XML, the following are all valid numeric character references for the Greek capital letter Sigma </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Numerical character reference of <span class="nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">U+03A3</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">Σ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA</span><br />(Note that 3A3<sub>16</sub> = 931<sub>10</sub>) </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Unicode#Upluslink" title="Unicode">Unicode character</a> </th> <th>Numerical base </th> <th>Numerical reference in markup </th> <th>Effect </th></tr> <tr> <td>U+03A3</td> <td>Decimal</td> <td>&#931;</td> <td>Σ </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+03A3</td> <td>Decimal</td> <td>&#0931;</td> <td>Σ </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+03A3</td> <td>Hexadecimal</td> <td>&#x3A3;</td> <td>Σ </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+03A3</td> <td>Hexadecimal</td> <td>&#x03A3;</td> <td>Σ </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+03A3</td> <td>Hexadecimal</td> <td>&#x3a3;</td> <td>Σ </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In SGML, HTML, and XML, the following are all valid numeric character references for the Latin capital letter AE </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Numerical character reference of <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+00C6</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">Æ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE</span> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Unicode#Upluslink" title="Unicode">Unicode character</a> </th> <th>Numerical base </th> <th>Numerical reference in markup </th> <th>Effect </th></tr> <tr> <td>U+00C6</td> <td>Decimal</td> <td>&#198;</td> <td>Æ </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+00C6</td> <td>Hexadecimal</td> <td>&#xC6;</td> <td>Æ </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In SGML, HTML, and XML, the following are all valid numeric character references for the Latin small letter sharp s ß </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Numerical character reference of <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+00DF</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ß</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S</span> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Unicode#Upluslink" title="Unicode">Unicode character</a> </th> <th>Numerical base </th> <th>Numerical reference in markup </th> <th>Effect </th></tr> <tr> <td>U+00DF</td> <td>Decimal</td> <td>&#223;</td> <td>ß </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+00DF</td> <td>Hexadecimal</td> <td>&#xDF;</td> <td>ß </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>List of numeric character references for the printable <a href="/wiki/ASCII" title="ASCII">ASCII</a> characters: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Unicode#Upluslink" title="Unicode">Unicode character</a> </th> <th>Character<br />Reference<br />(decimal) </th> <th>Character<br />Reference<br />(hexadecimal) </th> <th>Effect </th></tr> <tr> <td>U+0020</td> <td>&#32;</td> <td>&#x20;</td> <td>(space) </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0021</td> <td>&#33;</td> <td>&#x21;</td> <td>! </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0022</td> <td>&#34;</td> <td>&#x22;</td> <td>" </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0023</td> <td>&#35;</td> <td>&#x23;</td> <td># </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0024</td> <td>&#36;</td> <td>&#x24;</td> <td>$ </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0025</td> <td>&#37;</td> <td>&#x25;</td> <td>% </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0026</td> <td>&#38;</td> <td>&#x26;</td> <td>& </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0027</td> <td>&#39;</td> <td>&#x27;</td> <td>' </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0028</td> <td>&#40;</td> <td>&#x28;</td> <td>( </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0029</td> <td>&#41;</td> <td>&#x29;</td> <td>) </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+002A</td> <td>&#42;</td> <td>&#x2A;</td> <td>* </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+002B</td> <td>&#43;</td> <td>&#x2B;</td> <td>+ </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+002C</td> <td>&#44;</td> <td>&#x2C;</td> <td>, </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+002D</td> <td>&#45;</td> <td>&#x2D;</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+002E</td> <td>&#46;</td> <td>&#x2E;</td> <td>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+002F</td> <td>&#47;</td> <td>&#x2F;</td> <td>/ </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0030</td> <td>&#48;</td> <td>&#x30;</td> <td>0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0031</td> <td>&#49;</td> <td>&#x31;</td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0032</td> <td>&#50;</td> <td>&#x32;</td> <td>2 </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0033</td> <td>&#51;</td> <td>&#x33;</td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0034</td> <td>&#52;</td> <td>&#x34;</td> <td>4 </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0035</td> <td>&#53;</td> <td>&#x35;</td> <td>5 </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0036</td> <td>&#54;</td> <td>&#x36;</td> <td>6 </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0037</td> <td>&#55;</td> <td>&#x37;</td> <td>7 </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0038</td> <td>&#56;</td> <td>&#x38;</td> <td>8 </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0039</td> <td>&#57;</td> <td>&#x39;</td> <td>9 </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+003A</td> <td>&#58;</td> <td>&#x3A;</td> <td>: </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+003B</td> <td>&#59;</td> <td>&#x3B;</td> <td>; </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+003C</td> <td>&#60;</td> <td>&#x3C;</td> <td>< </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+003D</td> <td>&#61;</td> <td>&#x3D;</td> <td>= </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+003E</td> <td>&#62;</td> <td>&#x3E;</td> <td>> </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+003F</td> <td>&#63;</td> <td>&#x3F;</td> <td>? </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0040</td> <td>&#64;</td> <td>&#x40;</td> <td>@ </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0041</td> <td>&#65;</td> <td>&#x41;</td> <td>A </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0042</td> <td>&#66;</td> <td>&#x42;</td> <td>B </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0043</td> <td>&#67;</td> <td>&#x43;</td> <td>C </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0044</td> <td>&#68;</td> <td>&#x44;</td> <td>D </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0045</td> <td>&#69;</td> <td>&#x45;</td> <td>E </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0046</td> <td>&#70;</td> <td>&#x46;</td> <td>F </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0047</td> <td>&#71;</td> <td>&#x47;</td> <td>G </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0048</td> <td>&#72;</td> <td>&#x48;</td> <td>H </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0049</td> <td>&#73;</td> <td>&#x49;</td> <td>I </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+004A</td> <td>&#74;</td> <td>&#x4A;</td> <td>J </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+004B</td> <td>&#75;</td> <td>&#x4B;</td> <td>K </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+004C</td> <td>&#76;</td> <td>&#x4C;</td> <td>L </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+004D</td> <td>&#77;</td> <td>&#x4D;</td> <td>M </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+004E</td> <td>&#78;</td> <td>&#x4E;</td> <td>N </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+004F</td> <td>&#79;</td> <td>&#x4F;</td> <td>O </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0050</td> <td>&#80;</td> <td>&#x50;</td> <td>P </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0051</td> <td>&#81;</td> <td>&#x51;</td> <td>Q </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0052</td> <td>&#82;</td> <td>&#x52;</td> <td>R </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0053</td> <td>&#83;</td> <td>&#x53;</td> <td>S </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0054</td> <td>&#84;</td> <td>&#x54;</td> <td>T </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0055</td> <td>&#85;</td> <td>&#x55;</td> <td>U </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0056</td> <td>&#86;</td> <td>&#x56;</td> <td>V </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0057</td> <td>&#87;</td> <td>&#x57;</td> <td>W </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0058</td> <td>&#88;</td> <td>&#x58;</td> <td>X </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0059</td> <td>&#89;</td> <td>&#x59;</td> <td>Y </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+005A</td> <td>&#90;</td> <td>&#x5A;</td> <td>Z </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+005B</td> <td>&#91;</td> <td>&#x5B;</td> <td>[ </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+005C</td> <td>&#92;</td> <td>&#x5C;</td> <td>\ </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+005D</td> <td>&#93;</td> <td>&#x5D;</td> <td>] </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+005E</td> <td>&#94;</td> <td>&#x5E;</td> <td>^ </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+005F</td> <td>&#95;</td> <td>&#x5F;</td> <td>_ </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0060</td> <td>&#96;</td> <td>&#x60;</td> <td>' </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0061</td> <td>&#97;</td> <td>&#x61;</td> <td>a </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0062</td> <td>&#98;</td> <td>&#x62;</td> <td>b </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0063</td> <td>&#99;</td> <td>&#x63;</td> <td>c </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0064</td> <td>&#100;</td> <td>&#x64;</td> <td>d </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0065</td> <td>&#101;</td> <td>&#x65;</td> <td>e </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0066</td> <td>&#102;</td> <td>&#x66;</td> <td>f </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0067</td> <td>&#103;</td> <td>&#x67;</td> <td>g </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0068</td> <td>&#104;</td> <td>&#x68;</td> <td>h </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0069</td> <td>&#105;</td> <td>&#x69;</td> <td>i </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+006A</td> <td>&#106;</td> <td>&#x6A;</td> <td>j </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+006B</td> <td>&#107;</td> <td>&#x6B;</td> <td>k </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+006C</td> <td>&#108;</td> <td>&#x6C;</td> <td>l </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+006D</td> <td>&#109;</td> <td>&#x6D;</td> <td>m </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+006E</td> <td>&#110;</td> <td>&#x6E;</td> <td>n </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+006F</td> <td>&#111;</td> <td>&#x6F;</td> <td>o </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0070</td> <td>&#112;</td> <td>&#x70;</td> <td>p </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0071</td> <td>&#113;</td> <td>&#x71;</td> <td>q </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0072</td> <td>&#114;</td> <td>&#x72;</td> <td>r </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0073</td> <td>&#115;</td> <td>&#x73;</td> <td>s </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0074</td> <td>&#116;</td> <td>&#x74;</td> <td>t </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0075</td> <td>&#117;</td> <td>&#x75;</td> <td>u </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0076</td> <td>&#118;</td> <td>&#x76;</td> <td>v </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0077</td> <td>&#119;</td> <td>&#x77;</td> <td>w </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0078</td> <td>&#120;</td> <td>&#x78;</td> <td>x </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+0079</td> <td>&#121;</td> <td>&#x79;</td> <td>y </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+007A</td> <td>&#122;</td> <td>&#x7A;</td> <td>z </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+007B</td> <td>&#123;</td> <td>&#x7B;</td> <td>{ </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+007C</td> <td>&#124;</td> <td>&#x7C;</td> <td>| </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+007D</td> <td>&#125;</td> <td>&#x7D;</td> <td>} </td></tr> <tr> <td>U+007E</td> <td>&#126;</td> <td>&#x7E;</td> <td>~ </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discussion">Discussion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Numeric_character_reference&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Discussion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Markup languages are typically defined in terms of UCS or Unicode characters. That is, a document consists, at its most fundamental level of abstraction, of a sequence of characters, which are abstract units that exist independently of any <a href="/wiki/Character_encoding" title="Character encoding">encoding</a>. </p><p>Ideally, when the characters of a document utilizing a markup language are encoded for storage or transmission over a network as a sequence of <a href="/wiki/Bit" title="Bit">bits</a>, the encoding that is used will be one that supports representing each and every character in the document, if not in the whole of Unicode, directly as a particular bit sequence. </p><p>Sometimes, though, for reasons of convenience or due to technical limitations, documents are encoded with an encoding that cannot represent some characters directly. For example, the widely used encodings based on <a href="/wiki/ISO_8859" class="mw-redirect" title="ISO 8859">ISO 8859</a> can only represent, at most, 256 unique characters as one 8-bit <a href="/wiki/Byte" title="Byte">byte</a> each. </p><p>Documents are rarely, in practice, ever allowed to use more than one encoding internally, so the onus is usually on the markup language to provide a means for document authors to express unencodable characters in terms of encodable ones. This is generally done through some kind of <a href="/wiki/Escape_character" title="Escape character">"escaping" mechanism</a>. </p><p>The SGML-based markup languages allow document authors to use special sequences of characters from the ASCII range (the first 128 code points of Unicode) to represent, or <i>reference</i>, any Unicode character, regardless of whether the character being represented is directly available in the document's encoding. These special sequences are <i>character references</i>. </p><p>Character references that are based on the referenced character's UCS or Unicode <a href="/wiki/Code_point" title="Code point">code point</a> are called <i>numeric</i> character references. In HTML 4 and in all versions of <a href="/wiki/XHTML" title="XHTML">XHTML</a> and XML, the code point can be expressed either as a <a href="/wiki/Decimal" title="Decimal">decimal</a> (base 10) number or as a <a href="/wiki/Hexadecimal" title="Hexadecimal">hexadecimal</a> (base 16) number. The syntax is as follows: </p><p>Character U+0026 (<a href="/wiki/Ampersand" title="Ampersand">ampersand</a>), followed by character U+0023 (<a href="/wiki/Number_sign" title="Number sign">number sign</a>), followed by one of the following choices: </p> <ul><li>one or more decimal digits zero (U+0030) through nine (U+0039); or</li> <li>character U+0078 ("x") followed by one or more hexadecimal digits, which are zero (U+0030) through nine (U+0039), Latin capital letter A (U+0041) through F (U+0046), and Latin small letter a (U+0061) through f (U+0066);</li></ul> <p>all followed by character U+003B (<a href="/wiki/Semicolon" title="Semicolon">semicolon</a>). Older versions of HTML disallowed the hexadecimal syntax. </p><p>The characters that comprise a numeric character reference can be represented in every character encoding used in computing and telecommunications today, so there is no risk of the reference itself being unencodable. </p><p>There is another kind of character reference called a <i><a href="/wiki/Character_entity_reference" class="mw-redirect" title="Character entity reference">character entity reference</a></i>, which allows a character to be referred to by a name instead of a number. (Naming a character creates a <i>character <a href="/wiki/SGML_entity" title="SGML entity">entity</a></i>.) HTML defines some character entities, but not many; all other characters can only be included by direct encoding or using NCRs. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Restrictions">Restrictions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Numeric_character_reference&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Restrictions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Universal Character Set defined by ISO 10646 is the "document character set" of SGML, HTML 4, so by default, any character in such a document, and any character <i>referenced</i> in such a document, must be in the UCS. </p><p>While the syntax of SGML does not prohibit references to invalid or unassigned code points, such as <code>&#xFFFF;</code>, SGML-derived markup languages such as HTML and XML can, and often do, restrict numeric character references to only those code points that are assigned to characters. </p><p>Restrictions may also apply for other reasons. For example, in HTML 4, <code>&#12;</code>, which is a reference to a non-printing "form feed" control character, is allowed because a form feed character is allowed. But in XML, the form feed character cannot be used, not even by reference.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> As another example, <code>&#128;</code>, which is a reference to another control character, is not allowed to be used or referenced in either HTML or XML, but when used in HTML, it is usually not flagged as an error by web browsers – some of which interpret it as a reference to the character represented by code value 128 in the <a href="/wiki/Windows-1252" title="Windows-1252">Windows-1252</a> encoding for compatibility reasons. This character, "€", has to be represented as <code>&#8364;</code> in a standard-compliant HTML code. As a further example, prior to the publication of XML 1.0 Second Edition on October 6, 2000, XML 1.0 was based on an older version of ISO 10646 and prohibited using characters above U+FFFD, except in character data, thus making a reference like <code>&#65536;</code> (U+10000) illegal. In XML 1.1 and newer editions of XML 1.0, such a reference is allowed, because the available character repertoire was explicitly extended. </p><p>Markup languages also place restrictions on where character references can occur. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Compatibility_issues">Compatibility issues</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Numeric_character_reference&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Compatibility issues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the initial versions of <a href="/wiki/SGML" class="mw-redirect" title="SGML">SGML</a> and <a href="/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a>, numeric character references were interpreted in relationship to the document character encoding, rather than <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a>. For Latin-script documents, numeric character references to characters between x80 and x9F in those documents will not be correct against <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a>, and must be recoded. HTML standards prior to <a href="/wiki/HTML_4" class="mw-redirect" title="HTML 4">HTML 4</a> supported only Western Latin script documents: the treatment of character references above #7F may vary between applications and national conventions. </p><p>For example, as mentioned above, the correct numeric character reference for the <a href="/wiki/Euro_sign" title="Euro sign">Euro sign</a> "€" <code>U+20AC</code> when using <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> is decimal <code>&#8364;</code> and hexadecimal <code>&#x20AC;</code>. However, if using tools supporting obsolete implementations of HTML, the reference <code>&#128;</code> (Euro sign in the <a href="/wiki/CP-1252" class="mw-redirect" title="CP-1252">CP-1252</a> code page) or <code>&#164;</code> (Euro sign in <a href="/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-15" title="ISO/IEC 8859-15">ISO/IEC 8859-15</a>) may work. </p><p>As another example, if some text was created originally using the <a href="/wiki/MacRoman" class="mw-redirect" title="MacRoman">MacRoman</a> character set, the <a href="/wiki/Quotation_mark" title="Quotation mark">left double quotation mark</a> <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">“</span> will be represented with code point xD2. This will not display properly in a system expecting a document encoded as UTF-8, ISO 8859-1, or CP-1252, where this code point is occupied by the letter <a href="/wiki/%C3%92" title="Ò">Ò</a>. The correct numeric character reference for <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">“</span> in HTML 4 and newer is <code>&#x201C;</code>, because <a href="/wiki/Unicode#Upluslink" title="Unicode">U+</a>201C is its UCS code. 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title="Numerals in Unicode">Numbers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Modern scripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adlam_script" title="Adlam script">Adlam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arabic_script" title="Arabic script">Arabic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_alphabet" title="Armenian alphabet">Armenian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balinese_script" title="Balinese script">Balinese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bamum_script" title="Bamum script">Bamum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Batak_script" title="Batak script">Batak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bengali%E2%80%93Assamese_script" title="Bengali–Assamese script">Bengali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bopomofo" title="Bopomofo">Bopomofo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Braille" title="Braille">Braille</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buhid_script" title="Buhid script">Buhid</a></li> 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scripts">Georgian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_script_in_Unicode" title="Greek script in Unicode">Greek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gujarati_script" title="Gujarati script">Gujarati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gunjala_Gondi_script" title="Gunjala Gondi script">Gunjala Gondi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gurmukhi" title="Gurmukhi">Gurmukhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gurung_Khema" class="mw-redirect" title="Gurung Khema">Gurung Khema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hangul" title="Hangul">Hangul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanifi_Rohingya_script" title="Hanifi Rohingya script">Hanifi Rohingya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanja" title="Hanja">Hanja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanunoo_script" title="Hanunoo script">Hanunuoo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebrew_alphabet" title="Hebrew alphabet">Hebrew</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiragana" title="Hiragana">Hiragana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Javanese_script" title="Javanese script">Javanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanji" title="Kanji">Kanji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kannada_script" title="Kannada script">Kannada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katakana" title="Katakana">Katakana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kayah_Li_alphabet" title="Kayah Li alphabet">Kayah Li</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khmer_script" title="Khmer script">Khmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirat_Rai" title="Kirat Rai">Kirat Rai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lao_script" title="Lao script">Lao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_script_in_Unicode" title="Latin script in Unicode">Latin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lepcha_script" title="Lepcha script">Lepcha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Limbu_script" title="Limbu script">Limbu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fraser_script" title="Fraser script">Lisu (Fraser)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lontara_script" title="Lontara script">Lontara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malayalam_script" title="Malayalam script">Malayalam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gondi_writing#Munshi_Mangal_Singh_Masaram_Script" title="Gondi writing">Masaram Gondi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mende_Kikakui_script" title="Mende Kikakui script">Mende Kikakui</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medefaidrin" title="Medefaidrin">Medefaidrin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pollard_script" title="Pollard script">Miao (Pollard)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_script" title="Mongolian script">Mongolian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mru_language#Alphabet" title="Mru language">Mru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%27Ko_script" title="N'Ko script">N'Ko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nag_Mundari" class="mw-redirect" title="Nag Mundari">Nag Mundari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Tai_Lue_alphabet" title="New Tai Lue alphabet">New Tai Lue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%C3%BCshu" title="Nüshu">Nüshu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nyiakeng_Puachue_Hmong" title="Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong">Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odia_script" title="Odia script">Odia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ol_Chiki_script" title="Ol Chiki script">Ol Chiki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ol_Onal" title="Ol Onal">Ol Onal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osage_script" title="Osage script">Osage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osmanya_alphabet" title="Osmanya alphabet">Osmanya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pahawh_Hmong" title="Pahawh Hmong">Pahawh Hmong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pau_Cin_Hau_script" title="Pau Cin Hau script">Pau Cin Hau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pracalit_script" title="Pracalit script">Pracalit (Newa)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranjana_script" title="Ranjana script">Ranjana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rejang_alphabet" title="Rejang alphabet">Rejang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samaritan_script" title="Samaritan script">Samaritan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saurashtra_script" title="Saurashtra script">Saurashtra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shavian_alphabet" title="Shavian alphabet">Shavian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinhala_script" title="Sinhala script">Sinhala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sorang_Sompeng_script" title="Sorang Sompeng script">Sorang Sompeng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sundanese_script" title="Sundanese script">Sundanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunwar_language" title="Sunwar language">Sunuwar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syriac_alphabet" title="Syriac alphabet">Syriac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tagbanwa_script" title="Tagbanwa script">Tagbanwa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tai_Le_script" title="Tai Le script">Tai Le</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tai_Tham_script" title="Tai Tham script">Tai Tham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tai_Dam_language#Writing_system" title="Tai Dam language">Tai Viet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_script" title="Tamil script">Tamil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tangsa_language" title="Tangsa language">Tangsa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telugu_script" title="Telugu script">Telugu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thaana" title="Thaana">Thaana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thai_script" title="Thai script">Thai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_script" title="Tibetan script">Tibetan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tifinagh" title="Tifinagh">Tifinagh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tirhuta_script" title="Tirhuta script">Tirhuta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toto_language#Writing_system" title="Toto language">Toto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vai_syllabary" title="Vai syllabary">Vai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wancho_script" title="Wancho script">Wancho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warang_Citi" title="Warang Citi">Warang Citi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yi_script" title="Yi script">Yi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Ancient and<br />historic scripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ahom_script" title="Ahom script">Ahom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anatolian_hieroglyphs" title="Anatolian hieroglyphs">Anatolian hieroglyphs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_North_Arabian" title="Ancient North Arabian">Ancient North Arabian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avestan_alphabet" title="Avestan alphabet">Avestan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bassa_Vah_alphabet" title="Bassa Vah alphabet">Bassa Vah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhaiksuki_script" title="Bhaiksuki script">Bhaiksuki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brahmi_script" title="Brahmi script">Brāhmī</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carian_alphabets" title="Carian alphabets">Carian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caucasian_Albanian_script" title="Caucasian Albanian script">Caucasian Albanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coptic_script" title="Coptic script">Coptic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuneiform" title="Cuneiform">Cuneiform</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cypriot_syllabary" title="Cypriot syllabary">Cypriot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cypro-Minoan_syllabary" title="Cypro-Minoan syllabary">Cypro-Minoan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhives_Akuru" title="Dhives Akuru">Dives Akuru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dogri_script" title="Dogri script">Dogra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs" title="Egyptian hieroglyphs">Egyptian hieroglyphs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elbasan" title="Elbasan">Elbasan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elymaic" title="Elymaic">Elymaic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glagolitic_script" title="Glagolitic script">Glagolitic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_alphabet" title="Gothic alphabet">Gothic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grantha_script" title="Grantha script">Grantha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hatran_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Hatran alphabet">Hatran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aramaic_alphabet" title="Aramaic alphabet">Imperial Aramaic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pahlavi_scripts#Inscriptional_Pahlavi" title="Pahlavi scripts">Inscriptional Pahlavi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parthian_language#Written_Parthian" title="Parthian language">Inscriptional Parthian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaithi" title="Kaithi">Kaithi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kawi_script" title="Kawi script">Kawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kharosthi" title="Kharosthi">Kharosthi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khitan_small_script" title="Khitan small script">Khitan small script</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khojki_script" title="Khojki script">Khojki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khudabadi_script" title="Khudabadi script">Khudawadi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khwarezmian_language" title="Khwarezmian language">Khwarezmian</a> (Chorasmian)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linear_A" title="Linear A">Linear A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linear_B" title="Linear B">Linear B</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lycian_alphabet" title="Lycian alphabet">Lycian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lydian_alphabet" title="Lydian alphabet">Lydian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahajani" title="Mahajani">Mahajani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makassarese_language#Writing_systems" title="Makassarese language">Makasar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandaic_alphabet" title="Mandaic alphabet">Mandaic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manichaean_script" title="Manichaean script">Manichaean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marchen_script" title="Marchen script">Marchen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meitei_script" title="Meitei script">Meetei Mayek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meroitic_script" title="Meroitic script">Meroitic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modi_script" title="Modi script">Modi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multani_script" title="Multani script">Multani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nabataean_script" title="Nabataean script">Nabataean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nandinagari" title="Nandinagari">Nandinagari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ogham" title="Ogham">Ogham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Hungarian_script" title="Old Hungarian script">Old Hungarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Italic_scripts" title="Old Italic scripts">Old Italic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Permic_script" title="Old Permic script">Old Permic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Persian_cuneiform" title="Old Persian cuneiform">Old 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