Kana Extended-B

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Kana Extended-B
RangeU+1AFF0..U+1AFFF
(16 code points)
PlaneSMP
ScriptsKatakana
Assigned13 code points
Unused3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
14.0 (2021)13 (+13)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Kana Extended-B is a Unicode block containing Taiwanese kana (that is, kana originally created by Japanese linguists to write Taiwanese Hokkien).

Block

Kana Extended-B[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+1AFFx 𚿰 𚿱 𚿲 𚿳 𚿵 𚿶 𚿷 𚿸 𚿹 𚿺 𚿻 𚿽 𚿾
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
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 Kana Extended-A block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID Document
14.0 U+1AFF0..1AFF3, 1AFF5..1AFFB, 1AFFD..1AFFE 13 L2/20-209 Brennan, Fredrick R. (2020-08-18), A Proposal to Encode Taiwanese Kana in the UCS
L2/20-233 Chan, Eiso (2020-09-18), Feedback on L2/20-209 and some information for the shakuhachi musical notation
L2/20-209R Brennan, Fredrick R. (2020-12-13), Final Proposal to Encode Taiwanese Kana in the UCS
L2/21-016R Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2021-01-14), "22 Kana", Recommendations to UTC #166 January 2021 on Script Proposals
L2/21-009 Moore, Lisa (2021-01-27), "B.1 — 22 Kana", UTC #166 Minutes
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

Fonts

As of 28 March 2024, 2 fonts are known to support the Kana Extended-B range:

  • Nishiki-teki.[3]
  • FRBTaiwaneseKana.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  3. ^ "TrueType font にしき的フォント『 Nishiki-teki 』Version 3.99t (2024-03-26)" (in Japanese). Umihotaru. 26 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  4. ^ "FRBTaiwaneseKana". ctrlcctrlv (GitHub). 9 November 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
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