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 | ||||||||||||||||
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 | |||
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Fonts
As of 28 March 2024, 2 fonts are known to support the Kana Extended-B range:
See also
- Kana Supplement (Unicode block)
- Small Kana Extension (Unicode block)
- Hiragana (Unicode block)
- Katakana (Unicode block)
- Kana Extended-A (Unicode block)
References
- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "FRBTaiwaneseKana". ctrlcctrlv (GitHub). 9 November 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
This page was last edited on 28 March 2024, at 21:58