Phonetic Extensions is a Unicode block containing phonetic characters used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, Old Irish phonetic notation, the Oxford English Dictionary and American dictionaries, and Americanist and Russianist phonetic notations. Its character set is continued in the following Unicode block, Phonetic Extensions Supplement.

Block

Phonetic Extensions[1] (PDF)
0123456789ABCDEF
U+1D0xᴀᴁᴂᴃᴄᴅᴆᴇᴈᴉᴊᴋᴌᴍᴎᴏ
U+1D1xᴐᴑᴒᴓᴔᴕᴖᴗᴘᴙᴚᴛᴜᴝᴞᴟ
U+1D2xᴠᴡᴢᴣᴤᴥᴦᴧᴨᴩᴪᴫᴬᴭᴮᴯ
U+1D3xᴰᴱᴲᴳᴴᴵᴶᴷᴸᴹᴺᴻᴼᴽᴾᴿ
U+1D4xᵀᵁᵂᵃᵄᵅᵆᵇᵈᵉᵊᵋᵌᵍᵎᵏ
U+1D5xᵐᵑᵒᵓᵔᵕᵖᵗᵘᵙᵚᵛᵜᵝᵞᵟ
U+1D6xᵠᵡᵢᵣᵤᵥᵦᵧᵨᵩᵪᵫᵬᵭᵮᵯ
U+1D7xᵰᵱᵲᵳᵴᵵᵶᵷᵸᵹᵺᵻᵼᵽᵾᵿ
Notes 1.^As of Unicode version 17.0

History

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

VersionFinal code pointsCountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
4.0U+1D00..1D6A107Everson, Michael; et al. (2002-03-20), Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS
Everson, Michael (2002-05-02), Everson's Reply on UPA
Everson, Michael; Kolehmainen, Erkki I.; Ruppel, Klaas; Trosterud, Trond (2002-05-21), Justification for placing the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet in the BMP
Whistler, Ken (2002-05-31), WG2 report from Dublin
Whistler, Ken (2002-06-03), Early look at WG2 consent docket
Moore, Lisa (2002-08-09), "Scripts and New Characters - UPA", UTC #91 Minutes
Moore, Lisa (2002-10-21), "Consensus 92-C2", UTC #92 Minutes
Freytag, Asmus; Karlsson, Kent (2011-02-02), Proposal to correct mistakes and inconsistencies in certain property assignments for super and subscripted letters
Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), "Correct mistakes in property assignments for super and subscripted letters (B.13.4) [U+1D62..1D6A]", UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes
PRI #181 Changing General Category of Twelve Characters, 2011-05-02
U+1D6B1Everson, Michael (2002-11-10), Proposal to encode one Latin letter in the UCS
4.1U+1D6C..1D7611Constable, Peter (2003-09-30), Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Middle Tilde in the UCS
Moore, Lisa (2003-10-21), "Eleven Phonetic Symbols with Middle Tilde (B.14.15)", UTC #96 Minutes
Constable, Peter (2004-04-19), Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS
U+1D77..1D782Everson, Michael (1999-02-26), Optimizing Georgian representation in the BMP of the UCS
Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83
Everson, Michael (2003-09-04), Proposal to add Georgian and other characters to the BMP of the UCS
U+1D791Everson, Michael (2003-10-05), Proposal to encode one Irish phonetic letter in the UCS
U+1D7A1Davis, Mark (2002-09-05), Double Combining Stroke
Moore, Lisa (2003-08-18), "Scripts and New Characters - Double Combining Stroke", UTC #95 Minutes
Davis, Mark (2003-10-08), Latin Small Letter th with Strikethrough
Freytag, Asmus (2003-10-15), Phonetic symbols used in Dictionaries
Moore, Lisa (2003-10-22), "Phonetic symbols used in dictionaries (B.14.15)", UTC #97 Minutes
U+1D7B..1D7F5Constable, Peter (2003-05-30), Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Retroflex Hook in the UCS
Constable, Peter (2003-06-06), Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Palatal Hook in the UCS
Constable, Peter (2003-06-07), Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Modifier Letters in the UCS
Constable, Peter (2003-06-08), Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Symbols in the UCS
Moore, Lisa (2003-08-18), "Phonetic Symbols and Modifier Letters", UTC #95 Minutes
Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Modifier Letters in the UCS
Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Palatal Hook in the UCS
Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Retroflex Hook in the UCS
Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Symbols in the UCS
Constable, Peter (2004-04-19), Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS
Hallissy, Bob (2004-04-27), Soft-dotted characters in the pipeline
Moore, Lisa (2004-05-17), "Phonetic Modifier Letters (B.14.10), Phonetic Symbols with Palatal Hook (B.14.11), Phonetic Symbols with Retroflex Hook (B.14.12), and Additional Phonetic Symbols (B.14.13)", UTC #98 Minutes

See also