Small Kana Extension
| Small Kana Extension | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1B130..U+1B16F (64 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Hiragana (4 char.) Katakana (5 char.) |
| Assigned | 9 code points |
| Unused | 55 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 12.0 (2019) | 7 (+7) |
| 15.0 (2022) | 9 (+2) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Small Kana Extension is a Unicode block containing additional small variants for the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries,[3] in addition to those in the Hiragana, Katakana and Katakana Phonetic Extensions blocks.
Block
[edit]| Small Kana Extension[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+1B13x | 𛄲 | |||||||||||||||
| U+1B14x | ||||||||||||||||
| U+1B15x | 𛅐 | 𛅑 | 𛅒 | 𛅕 | ||||||||||||
| U+1B16x | 𛅤 | 𛅥 | 𛅦 | 𛅧 | ||||||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
Reserved code points for specific characters
[edit]Each unassigned code point (except U+1B168–U+1B16F) is reserved for a specific small kana character.[4]
- U+1B130 : reserved for hiragana letter small ki (き)
- U+1B131 : reserved for hiragana letter small ku (く)
- U+1B133 : reserved for hiragana letter small sa (さ)
- U+1B134 : reserved for hiragana letter small si (し)
- U+1B135 : reserved for hiragana letter small su (す)
- U+1B136 : reserved for hiragana letter small se (せ)
- U+1B137 : reserved for hiragana letter small so (そ)
- U+1B138 : reserved for hiragana letter small ta (た)
- U+1B139 : reserved for hiragana letter small ti (ち)
- U+1B13A : reserved for hiragana letter small te (て)
- U+1B13B : reserved for hiragana letter small to (と)
- U+1B13C : reserved for hiragana letter small na (な)
- U+1B13D : reserved for hiragana letter small ni (に)
- U+1B13E : reserved for hiragana letter small nu (ぬ)
- U+1B13F : reserved for hiragana letter small ne (ね)
- U+1B140 : reserved for hiragana letter small no (の)
- U+1B141 : reserved for hiragana letter small ha (は)
- U+1B142 : reserved for hiragana letter small hi (ひ)
- U+1B143 : reserved for hiragana letter small hu (ふ)
- U+1B144 : reserved for hiragana letter small he (へ)
- U+1B145 : reserved for hiragana letter small ho (ほ)
- U+1B146 : reserved for hiragana letter small ma (ま)
- U+1B147 : reserved for hiragana letter small mi (み)
- U+1B148 : reserved for hiragana letter small mu (む)
- U+1B149 : reserved for hiragana letter small me (め)
- U+1B14A : reserved for hiragana letter small mo (も)
- U+1B14B : reserved for hiragana letter small ra (ら)
- U+1B14C : reserved for hiragana letter small ri (り)
- U+1B14D : reserved for hiragana letter small ru (る)
- U+1B14E : reserved for hiragana letter small re (れ)
- U+1B14F : reserved for hiragana letter small ro (ろ)
- U+1B153 : reserved for hiragana letter small n (ん)
- U+1B154 : reserved for katakana letter small ki (キ)
- U+1B156 : reserved for katakana letter small sa (サ)
- U+1B157 : reserved for katakana letter small se (セ)
- U+1B158 : reserved for katakana letter small so (ソ)
- U+1B159 : reserved for katakana letter small ta (タ)
- U+1B15A : reserved for katakana letter small ti (チ)
- U+1B15B : reserved for katakana letter small te (テ)
- U+1B15C : reserved for katakana letter small na (ナ)
- U+1B15D : reserved for katakana letter small ni (ニ)
- U+1B15E : reserved for katakana letter small ne (ネ)
- U+1B15F : reserved for katakana letter small no (ノ)
- U+1B160 : reserved for katakana letter small ma (マ)
- U+1B161 : reserved for katakana letter small mi (ミ)
- U+1B162 : reserved for katakana letter small me (メ)
- U+1B163 : reserved for katakana letter small mo (モ)
History
[edit]The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Small Kana Extension block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12.0 | U+1B150..1B152, 1B164..1B167 | 7 | L2/16-334 | Sim, CheonHyeong (2016-11-04), Hiragana and Katakana (Small Letters) | |
| L2/16-354 | Yamaguchi, Ryusei (2016-11-07), Proposal to add Kana small letters | ||||
| L2/16-358R | N4803 | Lunde, Ken (2016-11-22), L2/16-334 & L2/16-354 Feedback (small kana) | |||
| L2/16-325 | Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "C.14 Kana", UTC #149 Minutes | ||||
| L2/17-016 | Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "Consensus 150-C18", UTC #150 Minutes | ||||
| N4953 (pdf, doc) | "M66.07i", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23 | ||||
| L2/17-353 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "N.1. Small Kana Extension code block and code point changes", WG2 Consent Docket | ||||
| L2/17-362 | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C13", UTC #153 Minutes | ||||
| 15.0 | U+1B132, 1B155 | 2 | L2/10-468R2 | N3987 | Lunde, Ken (2011-02-09), Proposal to add two kana characters |
| L2/11-016 | Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), "Consensus 126-C7", UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes, Accept U+1B002 HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL KO and U+1B003 KATAKANA LETTER SMALL KO for encoding in a future version of the standard. | ||||
| L2/11-228 | N4087 | Comment on "two kana" proposal, 2011-05-30 | |||
| N4108 | Sekiguchi, Masahiro (2011-06-08), A response regarding small ko | ||||
| N4103 | "11.2.7 Two additional Kana characters", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
| L2/16-354 | Yamaguchi, Ryusei (2016-11-07), Proposal to add Kana small letters | ||||
| L2/16-358R | N4803 | Lunde, Ken (2016-11-22), L2/16-334 & L2/16-354 Feedback (small kana) | |||
| L2/16-325 | Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "Consensus 149-C14", UTC #149 Minutes, Move HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL KO to U+1B127 and KATAKANA LETTER SMALL KO to U+1B128. | ||||
| L2/17-353 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "N.2. SMALL KO characters", WG2 Consent Docket, WG2 agreed to remove ... two characters from the Small Kana Extension block | ||||
| L2/20-015R | Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "Consensus 162-C21", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162, Change the codepoint for HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL KO from U+1B127 to U+1B132, and KATAKANA LETTER SMALL KO from U+1B12B to U+1B155. | ||||
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Fonts
[edit]As of 28 March 2024, 2 fonts are known to support the 15.0 Small Kana Extension range:
Other fonts
[edit]- FRBTaiwaneseKana supports 𛅦 (U+1B166), but none of the other 8 characters.
See also
[edit]- Hiragana (Unicode block)
- Katakana (Unicode block)
- Kana Extended-A (Unicode block)
- Kana Extended-B (Unicode block)
- Kana Supplement (Unicode block)
References
[edit]- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Chapter 18.4: 18.4 Hiragana and Katakana". The Unicode Standard, Version 12.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2018. ISBN 978-1-936213-22-1.
- ^ Suignard, Michel (2017-06-05). "Additional repertoire for ISO/IEC 10646:2017 (5th ed.) Amendment 2.0 (WG2 N4825)" (PDF). p. 16.
- ^ "BabelStone Han". Babelstone Fonts. 15 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
Small Kana Extension - 1B130..1B16F - 9 out of 9 characters - Full-width
- ^ "TrueType font にしき的フォント『 Nishiki-teki 』Version 3.99t (2024-03-26)" (in Japanese). Umihotaru. 26 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024.