Pau Cin Hau Syllabary

Southeast Asian

script: Qa14
family: Southeast Asian
type: logo-syllabary
whitespace: none
open_type_tag: none
complex_positioning: unknown
unicode: true
diacritics: true
status: Current
baseline: bottom
ligatures: unspecified
direction: ltr

The logographic script of Pau Cin Hau was created to write the Tedim language spoken in Myanmar. Specifically, it was created to convey the teachings of Pau Cin Hau, a Tedim speaker who founded the Laipian religion. According to Pau Cin Hau, he had a dream in 1902 in which the script was revealed to him. In 1932 the script was revised and the repertoire of approximately 1,000 logographs was reduced to fifty-seven alphabetic letters to form the Pau Cin Hau Alphabet.

This script is not currently recognized by the  ISO 15924 standard, but is included in ScriptSource for research purposes. If you have any information on this script, please add the information to this site. Your contributions can be a great help in refining and expanding the ISO 15924 standard. The  Script Encoding Initiative is working to support the inclusion of this script in the standard, and contributions here will support their efforts.