the syllables 'wen 元 yuán, 'ue 危 wēi and 'eeu 魚 yú occur; and in Mongolian Phags-pa texts the words 'eeu lu "not" and 'eeog bee.e "gave" occur. As there is no sign for the vowel a, which is implicit in an initial base consonant with no attached vowel sign, then words that start with an a vowel must also use the null base consonant letter 'A (e.g. Mongolian 'a mi than "living beings"). In Chinese, and rarely Mongolian, another null base consonant -A (Letter 23) may be found before initial vowels (see "Letter 23" below). Additional Letters Menggu Ziyun Following are the initials of the Phags-pa script as presented in Menggu Ziyun. They are ordered according to the Chinese philological tradition of the 36 initials. Shilin Guangji The Shilin Guangji used Phagspa to annotate Chinese text, serving as a precursor to modern pinyin. The following are the Phagspa transcriptions of a section of the Hundred Family Surnames in the Shilin Guangji. For example, the name Jin (金), meaning gold, is written as or Gim, similar to how it is transliterated in Korean (Kim). Unicode Phags-pa script was added to the Unicode Standard in July 2006 with the release of version 5.0. The Unicode block for Phags-pa is U+A840–U+A877: U+A856 is transliterated using from the Latin Extended-D Unicode block. See also Brahmic scripts Mongolian alphabets Origin of hangul Mongol elements in Western medieval art Menggu Ziyun (Yuan dynasty Phags-pa—Chinese rhyming dictionary) Shilin Guangji Siddhaṃ script References Further reading External links BabelStone: Phags-pa Script (with free fonts) Omniglot: Phags-pa script Ancientscripts: hPhags-pa Mongolian characters after Kublai Khan Brahmic scripts Mongolian writing systems Transcription of Chinese Obsolete writing systems Abugida writing systems Writing systems without word boundaries Old Mandarin Yuan dynasty Mongolia–Tibet relations