Katakana (Unicode block)

Katakana is a Unicode block containing katakana characters for the Japanese and Ainu languages.

Katakana
RangeU+30A0..U+30FF
(96 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsKatakana (93 char.)
Common (3 char.)
Major alphabetsJapanese
Ainu
Assigned96 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Source standardsJIS X 0208
Unicode version history
1.0.090 (+90)
1.194 (+4)
3.296 (+2)
Note: [1][2]

Block

Katakana[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+30Ax
U+30Bx
U+30Cx
U+30Dx
U+30Ex
U+30Fx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 13.0

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
1.0.0U+30A1..30F6, 30FB..30FE90(to be determined)
1.1U+30F7..30FA4(to be determined)
3.2U+30A0, 30FF2L2/99-238Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 1999-07-15
N2092Addition of forty eight characters, 1999-09-13
L2/00-024Shibano, Kohji (2000-01-31), JCS proposal revised
L2/00-098, L2/00-098-page5N2195Rationale for non-Kanji characters proposed by JCS committee, 2000-03-15
L2/00-234N2203 (rtf, txt)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.20", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
L2/00-298N2258Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-2
L2/00-342N2278Sato, T. K.; Everson, Michael; Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-09-20), Ad hoc Report on Japan feedback N2257 and N2258
L2/01-050N2253Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.16 JIS X0213 Symbols", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000
L2/01-114N2328Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3503, ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000/PDAM 1, 2001-03-09
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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