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Front Matter

Kawi Script

Ancient script used in Java, Bali, and Sumatra (8th–14th century), the common ancestor of modern Javanese, Balinese, and Sundanese scripts.

ꦄ ꦅ ꦆ ꦇ ꦈ
Era
Ancient
Region
SE Asia
System
Abugida
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Signs
86
Status
Extinct
Ancient script used in Java, Bali, and Sumatra (8th–14th century), the common ancestor of modern Javanese, Balinese, and Sundanese scripts. "Kawi" means "poet" in Sanskrit, and the script was used to write Old Javanese (Kawi), the language of Indonesian court literature. The inscriptions at Borobudur Buddhist temple were carved in this script.
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The Letters

Signs · Unicode · Types
Sample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+11F00–U+11F5F
Total signs86
In Unicode86
Unicode Blocks
Kawi
11F00 – 11F5F
86 chars→
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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Reading Mechanics

Direction · Method
↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
왼쪽에서 오른쪽으로 표기.
α
System
Abugida
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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The Lineage

Family · Descendants
Phylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family

Same family

Buginese (Lontara)BuhidShan ScriptHanunuoBaybayin (Tagalog Script)
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In the World

Usage · Reach

Languages

Old Javanese (Kawi)

Countries

Indonesia