Small Kana Extension
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Small Kana Extension is a Unicode block containing additional small variants for the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries, in addition to those in the Hiragana, Katakana and Katakana Phonetic Extensions blocks.
Block
| Small Kana Extension[1][2] (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 1.^As of Unicode version 17.0 2.^Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points |
Unassigned code points in the U+1B130 to U+1B163 range were set aside for possible future small kana.
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 | Count | L2ID | WG2ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12.0 | U+1B150..1B152, 1B164..1B167 | 7 | Sim, CheonHyeong (2016-11-04), Hiragana and Katakana (Small Letters) | ||
| Yamaguchi, Ryusei (2016-11-07), Proposal to add Kana small letters | |||||
| Lunde, Ken (2016-11-22), L2/16-334 & L2/16-354 Feedback (small kana) | |||||
| Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "C.14 Kana", UTC #149 Minutes | |||||
| Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "Consensus 150-C18", UTC #150 Minutes | |||||
| , ) | "M66.07i", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23 | ||||
| Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "N.1. Small Kana Extension code block and code point changes", WG2 Consent Docket | |||||
| Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C13", UTC #153 Minutes | |||||
| 15.0 | U+1B132, 1B155 | 2 | Lunde, Ken (2011-02-09), Proposal to add two kana characters | ||
| 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. | |||||
| Comment on "two kana" proposal, 2011-05-30 | |||||
| Sekiguchi, Masahiro (2011-06-08), A response regarding small ko | |||||
| "11.2.7 Two additional Kana characters", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | |||||
| Yamaguchi, Ryusei (2016-11-07), Proposal to add Kana small letters | |||||
| Lunde, Ken (2016-11-22), L2/16-334 & L2/16-354 Feedback (small kana) | |||||
| 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. | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| 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. | |||||
Fonts
As of 28 March 2024, 2 fonts are known to support the 15.0 Small Kana Extension range:
- BabelStone Han.
- Nishiki-teki.
Other fonts
- FRBTaiwaneseKana supports 𛅦 (U+1B166), but none of the other 8 characters.