Kana Supplement Explained

Rangestart:	1B000
Rangeend:	1B0FF
Alphabets:	Japanese
6 0:	2
10 0:	254
Note:	^[1] ^[2]

Kana Supplement is a Unicode block containing one archaic katakana character and 255 hentaigana (non-standard Hiragana) characters. Additional hentaigana characters are encoded in the Kana Extended-A block.

Block

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Kana Supplement block:

		Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
6.0	U+1B000..1B001	2		N3388
				N3394
				N3528
				doc)
				doc)
				N4731
10.0	U+1B002..1B0FF	254		N3698
				doc)
				N4103
				N4670
				N4674
			xlsx)
			xlsx)	N4708
			xlsx)	N4732
				N4743
				doc)

Fonts

As of 26 May 2024, 5 fonts are known to support the 10.0 Kana Supplement range:

• BabelStone Han.^[3]
• HanaMinA.^[4]
• IPA MJ Mincho.^[5]
• Noto Serif Hentaigana^[6]
• Sukima Gothic.^[7]

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Unicode character database. The Unicode Standard. 2023-07-26.
2. Web site: Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard. The Unicode Standard. 2023-07-26.
3. Web site: BabelStone Han. BabelStone Fonts. 26 May 2024. Kana Supplement - 1B000..1B0FF - 256 out of 256 characters.
4. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20230806122136/https://fonts.jp/hanazono/. 現在公開されている花園明朝：2017年09月04日版. dead. 6 August 2023. Fonts.jp. 4 April 2017. 26 May 2024. ja. U+1B000-1B0FF 仮名文字補助 256字（一部Unicode標準の例示字形と異なります）.
5. Web site: IPA MJ Mincho Font. 26 May 2024. ja.
6. Web site: notofonts/hentaigana: Noto Serif Hentaigana . GitHub . 19 June 2024.
7. Web site: Sukima Gothic. 26 May 2024. ja.