Kana Supplement

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Short description: Unicode character block
Kana Supplement
RangeU+1B000..U+1B0FF
(256 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsHiragana (255 char.)
Katakana (1 char.)
Major alphabetsJapanese
Assigned256 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
6.02 (+2)
10.0256 (+254)
Note: [1][2]

Kana Supplement is a Unicode block containing one archaic katakana character and 255 hentaigana (non-standard Hiragana) characters. Additional hentaigana characters are encoded in the Kana Extended-A block.

Block

Template:Unicode chart Kana Supplement

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
6.0 U+1B000..1B001 2 L2/07-421 N3388 Kato, Nozomu (2008-01-14), Proposal to encode two Kana characters concerning YE 
L2/08-117 N3394 UTC/L2 request to review proposal for encoding 2 kana characters, 2008-02-28 
L2/08-257 Kato, Nozomu (2008-07-14), Letter from Nozomu Kato to UTC, re Kana [restricted access] 
L2/08-358 N3528 Japan's Input to N3388 (Two Kana Characters), 2008-10-09 
L2/08-359 Kato, Nozomu (2008-10-24), About WG2 N3528 
L2/08-412 N3553 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-11-05), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 53 
L2/09-062 Kato, Nozomu (2009-01-27), Background Info on "e" Letters in Kana (in Japanese) 
L2/09-003R Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes 
L2/09-234 N3603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 
L2/09-104 Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes 
L2/09-335R Moore, Lisa (2009-11-10), UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes, "Change block name HISTORIC KANA to KANA SUPPLEMENT." 
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 
L2/16-123 Comments on Public Review Issues (Jan 22, 2016 - May 03, 2016), 2016-05-05 
L2/16-189 N4731 Proposal to add a new character name alias to U+1B001, 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 
L2/17-014 Orita, Tetsuji (2017-01-13), Notes on the HENTAIGANA「江」and the ARCHAIC HIRAGANA YE 
L2/17-016 Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), UTC #150 Minutes 
10.0 U+1B002..1B0FF 254 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 
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 
N4743 Proposal to correct the note for "HENTAIGANA LETTER HO-8", 2016-09-12 
N4873R (pdf, doc) Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16 
L2/16-325 Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), UTC #149 Minutes 
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

Fonts

As of 26 May 2024, 5 fonts are known to support the 10.0 Kana Supplement range:

  • BabelStone Han.[3]
  • HanaMinA.[4]
  • IPA MJ Mincho.[5]
  • Noto Serif Hentaigana[6]
  • Sukima Gothic.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. 
  2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. 
  3. ↑ "BabelStone Han". BabelStone Fonts. https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html. "Kana Supplement - 1B000..1B0FF - 256 out of 256 characters" 
  4. ↑ "現在公開されている花園明朝：2017年09月04日版" (in ja). Fonts.jp. 4 April 2017. https://fonts.jp/hanazono/. "U+1B000-1B0FF 仮名文字補助 256字（一部Unicode標準の例示字形と異なります）" 
  5. ↑ "IPA MJ Mincho Font" (in ja). https://moji.or.jp/mojikiban/font/. 
  6. ↑ "notofonts/hentaigana: Noto Serif Hentaigana". https://github.com/notofonts/hentaigana. 
  7. ↑ "Sukima Gothic" (in ja). https://booth.pm/ja/items/2117070. 



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