Kana Extended-A

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Short description: Unicode character block
Kana Extended-A
RangeU+1B100..U+1B12F
(48 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsHiragana (32 char.)
Katakana (3 char.)
Assigned31 code points
Unused17 reserved code points
Unicode version history
10.031 (+31)
Note: [1][2]

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.

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[lower-alpha 1] 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 
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

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