# Kana Extended-A

Kana Extended-A is a Unicode block containing hentaigana (non-standard hiragana) and historic kana characters. Additional hentaigana characters are encoded in the Kana Supplement block.

## Block

Kana Extended-A Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+1B10x | 𛄀 | 𛄁 | 𛄂 | 𛄃 | 𛄄 | 𛄅 | 𛄆 | 𛄇 | 𛄈 | 𛄉 | 𛄊 | 𛄋 | 𛄌 | 𛄍 | 𛄎 | 𛄏 |
| U+1B11x | 𛄐 | 𛄑 | 𛄒 | 𛄓 | 𛄔 | 𛄕 | 𛄖 | 𛄗 | 𛄘 | 𛄙 | 𛄚 | 𛄛 | 𛄜 | 𛄝 | 𛄞 | 𛄟 |
| U+1B12x | 𛄠 | 𛄡 | 𛄢 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 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 | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/09-099 | N3698 | van der Werven, Jeroen Ruigrok (2009-02-15), A proposal for encoding the hentaigana characters |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/09-200 | | McGowan, Rick (2009-05-07), Page images from Yomikata Nyuumon, 1884 |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/09-201 | | McGowan, Rick (2009-05-07), Type sample page image, hentaigana, 1903 |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/11-229 | N4091 (pdf, doc) | Notes on hentaigana, 2011-06-01 |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | | N4103 | "11.1.2 Hentaigana characters", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | | N4553 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2014-09-16), "M62.04b, M62.05b", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 62 Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/15-193 | N4670 | Orita, Tetsuji (2015-07-23), Request for Comments on HENTAIGANA proposal |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/15-239 | N4674 | Proposal of Japanese HENTAIGANA, 2015-09-18 |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/15-300 | | Tashiro, Shuichi (2015-10-31), Hentaigana List after Matsue discussion |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/15-312 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2015-11-01), "8. Hentaigana", Recommendations to UTC #145 November 2015 on Script Proposals |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/15-316 | | Takada, Tomokazu; Yada, Tsutomu; Saito, Tatsuya (2015-11-03), The past, present, and future of hentaigana [in Japanese] |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/15-318 (pdf, xlsx) | | Yada, Tsutomu (2015-11-04), About the inclusion of standardized codepoints for Hentaigana |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/15-334 | | Tranter, Nicolas (2015-12-09), Hentaigana proposal |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/15-343 (pdf, xlsx) | N4708 | Orita, Tetsuji (2015-12-09), Revised Proposal of HENTAIGANA |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/16-053 | | Lunde, Ken (2015-12-16), Hentaigana Comment Document |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/16-037 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), "16", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/16-040 | | Lunde, Ken (2016-01-26), Hentaigana Unification Candidates |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/16-085 | | Lunde, Ken (2016-04-28), Status of hentaigana proposal |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/16-123 | | "Two comments on hentaigana proposal", Comments on Public Review Issues (Jan 22, 2016 - May 03, 2016), 2016-05-05 |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/16-121 | | Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), "C.3", UTC #147 Minutes |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/16-188 (pdf, xlsx) | N4732 | Revised Proposal of Hentaigana, 2016-06-20 |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/16-216 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), "6.a", Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/16-203 | | Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), "C.3.1", UTC #148 Minutes |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | | N4873R (pdf, doc) | "10.3.2", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16 |
| 10.0 | U+1B100..1B11E | 31 | L2/16-325 | | Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "B.1.1.4, B.13.3.1", UTC #149 Minutes |
| 14.0 | U+1B11F..1B122 | 4 | L2/19-381 | | Gross, Abraham (2020-01-05), Proposal to Encode Missing Japanese Kana |
| 14.0 | U+1B11F..1B122 | 4 | L2/20-046 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Liang, Hai (2020-01-10), "11a.", Recommendations to UTC #162 January 2020 on Script Proposals |
| 14.0 | U+1B11F..1B122 | 4 | L2/20-015R | | Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "C.6.1 Proposal to encode missing Japanese kana", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162 |
| 14.0 | U+1B11F..1B122 | 4 | L2/20-152 | | Gross, Abraham (2020-06-24), Base Character of HIRAGANA LETTER ARCHAIC WU |
| 14.0 | U+1B11F..1B122 | 4 | L2/20-169 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Moore, Lisa; Constable, Peter; Liang, Hai (2020-07-21), "22. Kana", Recommendations to UTC #164 July 2020 on Script Proposals |
| 14.0 | U+1B11F..1B122 | 4 | L2/20-172 | | Moore, Lisa (2020-08-03), "Action Item 164-A41", UTC #164 Minutes |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||