Small Kana Extension

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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.

RangeU+1B130..U+1B16F
(64 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsHiragana (4 char.)
Katakana (5 char.)
Assigned9 code points
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Small Kana Extension
RangeU+1B130..U+1B16F
(64 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsHiragana (4 char.)
Katakana (5 char.)
Assigned9 code points
Unused55 reserved code points
Unicode version history
12.0 (2019)7 (+7)
15.0 (2022)9 (+2)
Unicode documentation
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Note: [1][2]
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Block

Small Kana Extension[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
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.[4][5][6]

History

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

More information Version, Final code points ...
VersionFinal code points[a]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
12.0U+1B150..1B152, 1B164..1B1677L2/16-334Sim, CheonHyeong (2016-11-04), Hiragana and Katakana (Small Letters)
L2/16-354Yamaguchi, Ryusei (2016-11-07), Proposal to add Kana small letters
L2/16-358RN4803Lunde, Ken (2016-11-22), L2/16-334 & L2/16-354 Feedback (small kana)
L2/16-325Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "C.14 Kana", UTC #149 Minutes
L2/17-016Moore, 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
L2/17-353Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "N.1. Small Kana Extension code block and code point changes", WG2 Consent Docket
L2/17-362Moore, Lisa (2018-02-02), "Consensus 153-C13", UTC #153 Minutes
15.0U+1B132, 1B1552L2/10-468R2N3987Lunde, Ken (2011-02-09), Proposal to add two kana characters
L2/11-016Moore, 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.
L2/11-228N4087Comment on "two kana" proposal, 2011-05-30
N4108Sekiguchi, 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
L2/16-354Yamaguchi, Ryusei (2016-11-07), Proposal to add Kana small letters
L2/16-358RN4803Lunde, Ken (2016-11-22), L2/16-334 & L2/16-354 Feedback (small kana)
L2/16-325Moore, 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.
L2/17-353Anderson, 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
L2/20-015RMoore, 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.
  1. [a]
    Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
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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

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