Kana Supplement
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Kana Supplement | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1B000..U+1B0FF (256 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Hiragana (255 char.) Katakana (1 char.) |
| Major alphabets | Japanese |
| Assigned | 256 code points |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 6.0 | 2 (+2) |
| 10.0 | 256 (+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
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 | ||||
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See also
- Hiragana (Unicode block)
- Katakana (Unicode block)
- Kana Extended-A (Unicode block)
- Kana Extended-B (Unicode block)
- Small Kana Extension (Unicode block)
References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html.
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