# 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

Small Kana Extension Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 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) |
| 12.0 | U+1B150..1B152, 1B164..1B167 | 7 | L2/16-354 | | Yamaguchi, Ryusei (2016-11-07), Proposal to add Kana small letters |
| 12.0 | U+1B150..1B152, 1B164..1B167 | 7 | L2/16-358R | N4803 | Lunde, Ken (2016-11-22), L2/16-334 & L2/16-354 Feedback (small kana) |
| 12.0 | U+1B150..1B152, 1B164..1B167 | 7 | L2/16-325 | | Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "C.14 Kana", UTC #149 Minutes |
| 12.0 | U+1B150..1B152, 1B164..1B167 | 7 | L2/17-016 | | Moore, Lisa (2017-02-08), "Consensus 150-C18", UTC #150 Minutes |
| 12.0 | U+1B150..1B152, 1B164..1B167 | 7 | | N4953 (pdf, doc) | "M66.07i", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 66, 2018-03-23 |
| 12.0 | U+1B150..1B152, 1B164..1B167 | 7 | L2/17-353 | | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken (2017-10-02), "N.1. Small Kana Extension code block and code point changes", WG2 Consent Docket |
| 12.0 | U+1B150..1B152, 1B164..1B167 | 7 | 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 |
| 15.0 | U+1B132, 1B155 | 2 | 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. |
| 15.0 | U+1B132, 1B155 | 2 | L2/11-228 | N4087 | Comment on "two kana" proposal, 2011-05-30 |
| 15.0 | U+1B132, 1B155 | 2 | | N4108 | Sekiguchi, Masahiro (2011-06-08), A response regarding small ko |
| 15.0 | U+1B132, 1B155 | 2 | | N4103 | "11.2.7 Two additional Kana characters", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 |
| 15.0 | U+1B132, 1B155 | 2 | L2/16-354 | | Yamaguchi, Ryusei (2016-11-07), Proposal to add Kana small letters |
| 15.0 | U+1B132, 1B155 | 2 | L2/16-358R | N4803 | Lunde, Ken (2016-11-22), L2/16-334 & L2/16-354 Feedback (small kana) |
| 15.0 | U+1B132, 1B155 | 2 | 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. |
| 15.0 | U+1B132, 1B155 | 2 | 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 |
| 15.0 | U+1B132, 1B155 | 2 | 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.