Kana Extended-A

Short description: Unicode character block

Kana Extended-A
Range	U+1B100..U+1B12F (48 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Hiragana (32 char.) Katakana (3 char.)
Assigned	31 code points
Unused	17 reserved code points
Unicode version history
10.0	31 (+31)
Note:

Kana Extended-A is a Unicode block containing hentaigana (non-standard hiragana) and historic kana characters. Additional hentaigana characters are encoded in the Kana Supplement block.

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Kana Extended-A block:

Version	Final code points	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
10.0	U+1B100..1B11E	31	L2/09-099	N3698	van der Werven, Jeroen Ruigrok (2009-02-15), A proposal for encoding the hentaigana characters
			L2/09-200		McGowan, Rick (2009-05-07), Page images from Yomikata Nyuumon, 1884
			L2/09-201		McGowan, Rick (2009-05-07), Type sample page image, hentaigana, 1903
			L2/11-229	N4091 (pdf, doc)	Notes on hentaigana, 2011-06-01
				N4103	Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
				N4553 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
			L2/15-193	N4670	Orita, Tetsuji (2015-07-23), Request for Comments on HENTAIGANA proposal
			L2/15-239	N4674	Proposal of Japanese HENTAIGANA, 2015-09-18
			L2/15-300		Tashiro, Shuichi (2015-10-31), Hentaigana List after Matsue discussion
			L2/15-312		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2015-11-01), Recommendations to UTC #145 November 2015 on Script Proposals
			L2/15-316		Takada, Tomokazu; Yada, Tsutomu; Saito, Tatsuya (2015-11-03), The past, present, and future of hentaigana [in Japanese]
			L2/15-318 (pdf, xlsx)		Yada, Tsutomu (2015-11-04), About the inclusion of standardized codepoints for Hentaigana
			L2/15-334		Tranter, Nicolas (2015-12-09), Hentaigana proposal
			L2/15-343 (pdf, xlsx)	N4708	Orita, Tetsuji (2015-12-09), Revised Proposal of HENTAIGANA
			L2/16-037		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals
			L2/16-040		Lunde, Ken (2016-01-26), Hentaigana Unification Candidates
			L2/16-085		Lunde, Ken (2016-04-28), Status of hentaigana proposal
			L2/16-123		Comments on Public Review Issues (Jan 22, 2016 - May 03, 2016), 2016-05-05
			L2/16-121		Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), UTC #147 Minutes
			L2/16-188 (pdf, xlsx)	N4732	Revised Proposal of Hentaigana, 2016-06-20
			L2/16-216		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals
			L2/16-203		Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), UTC #148 Minutes
				N4873R (pdf, doc)	Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16
			L2/16-325		Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), UTC #149 Minutes
			14.0	U+1B11F..1B122	4	L2/19-381		Gross, Abraham (2020-01-05), Proposal to Encode Missing Japanese Kana
L2/20-046		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2020-01-10), Recommendations to UTC #162 January 2020 on Script Proposals
L2/20-015R		Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162
L2/20-152		Gross, Abraham (2020-06-24), Base Character of HIRAGANA LETTER ARCHAIC WU
L2/20-169		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-07-21), Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals
L2/20-172		Moore, Lisa (2020-08-03), UTC #164 Minutes

See also

• Kana Supplement (Unicode block)
• Small Kana Extension (Unicode block)
• Hiragana (Unicode block)
• Katakana (Unicode block)
• Kana Extended-B (Unicode block)