Small Kana Extension

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.

Small Kana Extension
Range	U+1B130..U+1B16F (64 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Hiragana (3 char.) Katakana (4 char.)
Assigned	7 code points
Unused	57 reserved code points
Unicode version history
12.0	7 (+7)
Note: [1][2]

Block

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

U+1B14x

U+1B15x

𛅐

𛅑

𛅒

U+1B16x

𛅤

𛅥

𛅦

𛅧

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 13.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

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[lower-alpha 1]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
12.0	U+1B150..1B152, 1B164..1B167	7	L2/16-334		Sim, Cheon Hyeong (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
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

• Hiragana (Unicode block)
• Katakana (Unicode block)
• Kana Extended-A (Unicode block)
• Kana Supplement (Unicode block)

References

1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
3. "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.