Small Kana Extension

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Short description: Unicode character block
Small Kana Extension
RangeU+1B130..U+1B16F
(64 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsHiragana (4 char.)
Katakana (5 char.)
Assigned7 code points
Unused57 reserved code points
Unicode version history
12.07 (+7)
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

Template:Unicode chart Small Kana Extension

Unassigned code points in the U+1B130 to U+1B163 range were set aside for possible future small kana.[4][5][6]

History

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

Version Final code points[lower-alpha 1] 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 
L2/16-325 Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), UTC #149 Minutes 
L2/17-016 Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), UTC #150 Minutes 
N4953 (pdf, doc) Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23 
L2/17-353 Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), WG2 Consent Docket 
L2/17-362 Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), 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), 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 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), 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), WG2 Consent Docket, "WG2 agreed to remove ... two characters from the Small Kana Extension block" 
L2/20-015R Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), 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." 
  1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

Fonts

As of 28 March 2024, 2 fonts are known to support the 15.0 Small Kana Extension range:

  • BabelStone Han.[7]
  • Nishiki-teki.[8]

Other fonts

  • FRBTaiwaneseKana supports 𛅦 (U+1B166), but none of the other 8 characters.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 
  2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26. 
  3. ↑ "Chapter 18.4: 18.4 Hiragana and Katakana". The Unicode Standard, Version 12.0. Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2018. ISBN 978-1-936213-22-1. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode12.0.0/ch18.pdf. 
  4. ↑ Suignard, Michel (2017-06-05). "N4825: Additional repertoire for ISO/IEC 10646:2017 (5th ed.) Amendment 2.0". p. 16. https://unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4825-pdam2chart.pdf#page=16. 
  5. ↑ McGowan, Rick (2017-05-03), L2/17-105: Comments on Public Review Issues (Jan 18 - May 01, 2017), https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17105-pubrev.html 
  6. ↑ "L2/17-091: Japanese National Body Contribution on Small Kana Characters". 2017-04-07. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17091-sc2-n4523-small-kana.pdf. 
  7. ↑ "BabelStone Han". Babelstone Fonts. 15 March 2024. https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html. "Small Kana Extension - 1B130..1B16F - 9 out of 9 characters - Full-width" 
  8. ↑ "TrueType font にしき的フォント『 Nishiki-teki 』Version 3.99t (2024-03-26)" (in ja). Umihotaru. 26 March 2024. https://umihotaru.work/. 



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