Kana Extended-B

Kana Extended-B
Range	U+1AFF0..U+1AFFF (16 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Katakana
Assigned	13 code points
Unused	3 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 16.0 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 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
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

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

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.