| Small Kana Extension | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1B130..U+1B16F (64 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Hiragana (4 char.) Katakana (5 char.) |
| Assigned | 9 code points |
| Unused | 55 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 12.0 (2019) | 7 (+7) |
| 15.0 (2022) | 9 (+2) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| 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
[edit]| Small Kana Extension[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+1B13x | 𛄲 | |||||||||||||||
| U+1B14x | ||||||||||||||||
| U+1B15x | 𛅐 | 𛅑 | 𛅒 | 𛅕 | ||||||||||||
| U+1B16x | 𛅤 | 𛅥 | 𛅦 | 𛅧 | ||||||||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
Unassigned code points in the U+1B130 to U+1B163 range were set aside for possible future small kana.[4][5][6]
History
[edit]The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Small Kana Extension block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | 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 | ||||
| L2/16-358R | N4803 | Lunde, Ken (2016-11-22), L2/16-334 & L2/16-354 Feedback (small kana) | |||
| L2/16-325 | Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "C.14 Kana", UTC #149 Minutes | ||||
| L2/17-016 | Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "Consensus 150-C18", UTC #150 Minutes | ||||
| N4953 (pdf, doc) | "M66.07i", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23 | ||||
| L2/17-353 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "N.1. Small Kana Extension code block and code point changes", WG2 Consent Docket | ||||
| L2/17-362 | Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C13", 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), "Consensus 126-C7", 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 | "11.2.7 Two additional Kana characters", 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), "Consensus 149-C14", 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), "N.2. SMALL KO characters", WG2 Consent Docket, WG2 agreed to remove ... two characters from the Small Kana Extension block | ||||
| L2/20-015R | Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "Consensus 162-C21", 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. | ||||
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Fonts
[edit]As of 28 March 2024, 2 fonts are known to support the 15.0 Small Kana Extension range:
Other fonts
[edit]- FRBTaiwaneseKana supports 𛅦 (U+1B166), but none of the other 8 characters.
See also
[edit]- Hiragana (Unicode block)
- Katakana (Unicode block)
- Kana Extended-A (Unicode block)
- Kana Extended-B (Unicode block)
- Kana Supplement (Unicode block)
References
[edit]- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Chapter 18.4: 18.4 Hiragana and Katakana". The Unicode Standard, Version 12.0 (PDF). Mountain View, CA: Unicode, Inc. June 2018. ISBN 978-1-936213-22-1.
- ^ Suignard, Michel (2017-06-05). "N4825: Additional repertoire for ISO/IEC 10646:2017 (5th ed.) Amendment 2.0" (PDF). p. 16.
- ^ McGowan, Rick (2017-05-03), "Feedback on L2/17-091 and small kana", L2/17-105: Comments on Public Review Issues (Jan 18 - May 01, 2017)
- ^ "L2/17-091: Japanese National Body Contribution on Small Kana Characters" (PDF). 2017-04-07.
- ^ "BabelStone Han". Babelstone Fonts. 15 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
Small Kana Extension - 1B130..1B16F - 9 out of 9 characters - Full-width
- ^ "TrueType font にしき的フォント『 Nishiki-teki 』Version 3.99t (2024-03-26)" (in Japanese). Umihotaru. 26 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024.