Comparison of Character Sets

This page shows the character sets ordered by frequency.

Regular Characters
This character set purposely differs from traditional use of Nom. Phonetic loans are reduced and more meaningful characters than in traditional Nom texts are used.

Common Characters
This character set is more in line with characers found in traditional Nom usage and therefore contains many phonetic loans and abbreviated characters.

The character sets are based on the following documents:




Character Sets


Canonical Common Other Variants Definition

.   Unicode Extension B or C
*   Phonetic Loan
*   Phonetic Loan (but rare, phonetic, or similar)