Pau Cin Hau script
Script type	Alphabetic,Ideographic
Period	1902 — 1950s
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Tedim
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Pauc(263), ​Pau Cin Hau
Unicode
Unicode alias	Pau Cin Hau
Unicode range	U+11AC0–U+11AFF Final Accepted Script Proposal

ThePau Cin Hau scripts, known asPau Cin Hau lai ('Pau Cin Hau script'), orZo tual lai ('Zo indigenous script') inZomi, are two scripts, alogographic script and analphabetic script created byPau Cin Hau, aZomi religious leader fromChin State,Burma. The logographic script consists of 1,050 characters, which is a traditionally significant number based on the number of characters appearing in a religious text.^[1][2] The alphabetic script is a simplified script of 57 characters, which is divided into 21 consonants, 7 vowels, 9 final consonants, and 20 tone, length, and glottal marks. The original script was produced in 1902, but it is thought to have undergone at least two revisions, of which the first revision produced the logographic script.^[3]

The logographic script has not been encoded, but the alphabetic script has been encoded in Unicode 7.0.

The characters in the script seem to resemble characters in theLatin script and in theBurmese script in a way similar to the relationship betweenPahawh Hmong and bothLao script andLatin script. They are glyphically similar but encode different phonological values.

The script was designed for theZomi language but is able to transcribe otherZo languages, as there are additional letters and tone marks to represent sounds present in other Chin languages but not present inZomi. The script also had limited use for Christian literature in the region, as is evidenced by some Baptist documents produced in 1931-32 in Burma.

The script is not only a vehicle for Pau Cin Hau's monotheism.The letters are also used as icons for the religion along portraits of its creator.^[4]

Pau Cin Hau claimed to have a series of dreams in 1900 in which an elderly saintly man instructed, later identified as the creator godPasian, handled him a book with symbols and taught him certain shapes.From these symbols, Pau Cin Hau created the logographic script in 1902 and later the alphabet.^[4]

After being incorporated into Unicode, it is increasingly used in mobile communication andFacebook, causing religious leaders concern that it loses its sacred status.^[4]

The Pau Cin Hau alphabet was added to theUnicode Standard in June 2014 with the release of version 7.0.

The Unicode block for the Pau Cin Hau alphabet is U+11AC0–U+11AFF:

Noto Sans Pau Cin Hau supports the Pau Cin Hau script.

• Noto Sans Pau Cin Hau

• Kuki-Chin languages
• Writing systems of Asia
• Writing systems introduced in the 1900s
• 1902 introductions
• 1902 in Burma
• Pau Cin Hau script
• Alphabets

• Articles with short description
• Short description matches Wikidata
• Use dmy dates from March 2024
• Scripts with ISO 15924 four-letter codes