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Unicode character block

Small Kana Extension
Range	U+1B130..U+1B16F (64 code points)
Plane	SMP
Scripts	Hiragana (4 char.) Katakana (5 char.)
Assigned	9 code points
Unused	55 reserved code points
Unicode version history

12.0 (2019)	7 (+7)
15.0 (2022)	9 (+2)

Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note:

Small Kana Extension is a Unicode block containing additional small variants for the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries, in addition to those in the Hiragana, Katakana and Katakana Phonetic Extensions blocks.

Block

Small Kana Extension
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

U+1B13x

𛄲

U+1B14x

U+1B15x

𛅐

𛅑

𛅒

𛅕

U+1B16x

𛅤

𛅥

𛅦

𛅧

Notes

1. As of Unicode version 16.0

2. Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

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:

Version	Final code points	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
12.0	U+1B150..1B152, 1B164..1B167	7	L2/16-334		Sim, CheonHyeong (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
15.0	U+1B132, 1B155	2	L2/10-468R2	N3987	Lunde, Ken (2011-02-09), Proposal to add two kana characters
			L2/11-016		Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), "Consensus 126-C7", UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes, Accept U+1B002 HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL KO and U+1B003 KATAKANA LETTER SMALL KO for encoding in a future version of the standard.
			L2/11-228	N4087	Comment on "two kana" proposal, 2011-05-30
				N4108	Sekiguchi, Masahiro (2011-06-08), A response regarding small ko
				N4103	"11.2.7 Two additional Kana characters", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
			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), "Consensus 149-C14", UTC #149 Minutes, Move HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL KO to U+1B127 and KATAKANA LETTER SMALL KO to U+1B128.
			L2/17-353		Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "N.2. SMALL KO characters", WG2 Consent Docket, WG2 agreed to remove ... two characters from the Small Kana Extension block
			L2/20-015R		Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "Consensus 162-C21", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162, Change the codepoint for HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL KO from U+1B127 to U+1B132, and KATAKANA LETTER SMALL KO from U+1B12B to U+1B155.
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 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

"Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
"Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
"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.
Suignard, Michel (2017-06-05). "N4825: Additional repertoire for ISO/IEC 10646:2017 (5th ed.) Amendment 2.0" (PDF). p. 16.
McGowan, Rick (2017-05-03), "Feedback on L2/17-091 and small kana", L2/17-105: Comments on Public Review Issues (Jan 18 - May 01, 2017)
"L2/17-091: Japanese National Body Contribution on Small Kana Characters" (PDF). 2017-04-07.
"BabelStone Han". Babelstone Fonts. 15 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024. Small Kana Extension - 1B130..1B16F - 9 out of 9 characters - Full-width
"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.

Japanese language

Earlier forms

Dialects

Eastern	Hokkaidō Tōhoku Northern Nanbu Tsugaru Akita Matagi Southern Kesen Nairiku Kantō Western Gunma Kanagawa Tokyo Eastern Ibaraki Tochigi Northern Izu Islands Tōkai–Tōsan Nagano-Yamanashi-Shizuoka Shizuoka Narada Echigo Nagaoka Gifu-Aichi Nagoya Mikawa Mino Hida
Western	Hokuriku Kaga Kanazawa Shiramine Kansai Awaji Banshū Kishū Okuyoshino Shikoku Iyo Tosa Sanuki Chūgoku San'yō Bingo East San'in Inshū Umpaku
Kyūshū	Hōnichi Ōita Hichiku Chikuzen Hakata Kumamoto Nagasaki Saga Tsushima Satsugū
Other	Amami Japanese Okinawan Japanese

Pidgins and creoles

Japonic languages

Eastern Old Japanese Hachijō grammar
Ryukyuan	Northern Amami Ōshima Southern Amami Ōshima Kikai Kunigami Okinawan Okinoerabu Tokunoshima Yoron Southern Miyako Tarama Yaeyama Yonaguni

Writing system

Logograms	Script reform Kanbun Kanji by stroke count Kanji radicals by frequency by stroke count Kokuji Ryakuji Ateji
Kana	Hiragana Katakana Furigana Okurigana Gojūon Man'yōgana Hentaigana Sōgana Kana ligature
Orthography	Braille Kanji Punctuation Kanazukai Historical kana Modern kana Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai Yotsugana Transcription into Japanese
Encoding	EUC EUC-JP ISO/IEC 2022 JIS 0201 0208 0211 0212 0213 Shift JIS Unicode Hiragana Kana Extended-A Kana Extended-B Kana Supplement Small Kana Extension Katakana Katakana Phonetic Extensions Other ARIB STD B24 Enclosed EIS Extended shinjitai Half/Full