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 block.

Katakana Phonetic Extensions
RangeU+31F0..U+31FF
(16 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsKatakana
Major alphabetsAinu
Assigned16 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.2 (2002)16 (+16)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Further small katakana are present in the Small Kana Extension block.

Katakana Phonetic Extensions[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+31Fx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
3.2U+31F0..31FF16L2/99-238Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 1999-07-15
N2092Addition of forty eight characters, 1999-09-13
L2/99-365Moore, Lisa (1999-11-23), Comments on JCS Proposals
L2/00-024Shibano, Kohji (2000-01-31), JCS proposal revised
L2/99-260RMoore, Lisa (2000-02-07), "JCS Proposals", Minutes of the UTC/L2 meeting in Mission Viejo, October 26-28, 1999
L2/00-297N2257Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-1
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

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.
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