The latest post on the Unicode Blog gives some important details about the future character repertoire in Unicode 18.0, notably the addition of 11,328 "Small Seal" ideographic characters, plus 965 "Jurchen" characters and radicals . It also offers very clear insights about the work of the UTC (Unicode Technical Committee) on CJK & Unihan characters, in collaboration with the IRG (Ideographic Research Group).

🔗 https://blog.unicode.org/2025/12/utc-185-highlights.html

#Unicode #UTC #IRG #SmallSeal #Jurchen

In Unicode, up to 11,328 "Small Seal" characters are finally making their way through the "Pipeline"...

"WG2 N5341 - Small Seal Code charts and Data set"
🔗 https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n5341-SmallSealChart.pdf

"Topical Document List: Seal Script"
🔗 https://www.unicode.org/L2/topical/seal/

"Proposed New Characters: The Pipeline"
🔗 https://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html

#Unicode #SmallSeal #Pipeline