Small Kana Extension is a

Unicode block A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...

containing additional small variants for the

Hiragana is a Japanese language, Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", ...

and

Katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived fr ...

syllabaries, in addition to those in the

and

Katakana Phonetic Extensions Katakana Phonetic Extensions is a Unicode block containing additional small katakana characters for writing the Ainu language, in addition to characters in the Katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system a ...

blocks.

Block

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:

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.

References

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Block

History

Fonts

Other fonts

See also

References