Small Kana Extension

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

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:

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 <span style="font-family:FRBTaiwaneseKana,Nishiki-teki,'BabelStone Han',sans-serif">𛅦</span> (U+1B166), but none of the other 8 characters.

See also

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

References