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Front Matter

Hanifi Rohingya

Script created in the 1980s by Rohingya scholar Hanifi Yusuf to overcome the limitations of Arabic-based writing — designed to perfectly represent Rohingya's unique phonemes.

𐴀 𐴁 𐴂 𐴃 𐴄 𐴅 𐴆 𐴇
Era
Modern
Region
South Asia
System
Alphabet
Direction
Right to Left (RTL)
Signs
23
Status
Endangered
Script created in the 1980s by Rohingya scholar Hanifi Yusuf to overcome the limitations of Arabic-based writing — designed to perfectly represent Rohingya's unique phonemes. After ~700,000 Rohingya became refugees following the 2017 Myanmar military genocide, teaching this script in Bangladesh's Kutupalong refugee camp (the world's largest) became central to maintaining cultural identity. Added to Unicode in 2021.
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The Letters

Signs · Unicode · Types
Sample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+10D00–U+10D3F
Total signs23
In Unicode50
Unicode Blocks
Hanifi Rohingya
10D00 – 10D3F
50 chars→
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Form change over time
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Reading Mechanics

Direction · Method
↔
Direction
Right to Left (RTL)
우→좌 (RTL)
α
System
Alphabet
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
Keyboard layout data not yet available.
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The Lineage

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

Ancestors

Arabic

Same family

Sindhi (Arabic script)Modern Uyghur (Perso-Arabic)Persian Script (Nastaliq)Urdu (Nastaliq)
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In the World

Usage · Reach

Languages

Rohingya

Countries

MyanmarBangladesh