01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Kaithi
Practical script widely used for legal, administrative, and commercial documents in northern India from the 18th to early 20th century.
Practical script widely used for legal, administrative, and commercial documents in northern India from the 18th to early 20th century. Mughal-era court records and land documents were written in this script. It competed with Devanagari during British colonial rule but lost out in standardization.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+11080–U+110CF
Total signs66
Unicode Blocks
Not in Unicode
No Unicode block data available for this script.
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Written left to right.
α
System
Abugida
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
08REACH