# Bopomofo Extended

Bopomofo Extended is a Unicode block containing additional Bopomofo characters for writing phonetic Min Nan, Hakka Chinese, Cantonese, Hmu, and Ge. The basic set of Bopomofo characters can be found in the Bopomofo block.

## Block

Bopomofo Extended Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+31Ax | ㆠ | ㆡ | ㆢ | ㆣ | ㆤ | ㆥ | ㆦ | ㆧ | ㆨ | ㆩ | ㆪ | ㆫ | ㆬ | ㆭ | ㆮ | ㆯ |
| U+31Bx | ㆰ | ㆱ | ㆲ | ㆳ | ㆴ | ㆵ | ㆶ | ㆷ | ㆸ | ㆹ | ㆺ | ㆻ | ㆼ | ㆽ | ㆾ | ㆿ |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 |||||||||||||||||

## History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bopomofo Extended block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
| 3.0 | U+31A0..31B7 | 24 | L2/98-090 | N1713R | Proposal to add 24 extended Bopomofo and 2 modifier letters for Minnan and Hakka, 1998-03-19 |
| 3.0 | U+31A0..31B7 | 24 | L2/98-158 | | Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-05-26), "Bopomofo Extensions", Draft Minutes – UTC #76 & NCITS Subgroup L2 #173 joint meeting, Tredyffrin, Pennsylvania, April 20-22, 1998 |
| 3.0 | U+31A0..31B7 | 24 | L2/98-286 | N1703 | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.25", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20 |
| 3.0 | U+31A0..31B7 | 24 | L2/98-321 | N1905 | Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 23, AMENDMENT 23: Bopomofo Extended and other characters, 1998-10-22 |
| 3.0 | U+31A0..31B7 | 24 | L2/18-255 | N4980 | Tung, Bobby; Ko, But; Wei, Selena (2018-06-13), Proposal to Fix Glyphs in Bopomofo Extended Block and Encode one Bopomofo Letter |
| 6.0 | U+31B8..31BA | 3 | L2/09-049 | N3570 | West, Andrew (2009-01-25), Proposal to encode three Bopomofo letters for Hmu and Ge |
| 6.0 | U+31B8..31BA | 3 | L2/09-003R | | Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), "B.15.15", UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes |
| 6.0 | U+31B8..31BA | 3 | L2/09-234 | N3603 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.13f", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54 |
| 13.0 | U+31BB | 1 | L2/18-255 | N4980 | Tung, Bobby; Ko, But; Wei, Selena (2018-06-13), Proposal to Fix Glyphs in Bopomofo Extended Block and Encode one Bopomofo Letter |
| 13.0 | U+31BB | 1 | L2/18-183 | | Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), "C.21", UTC #156 Minutes |
| 13.0 | U+31BB | 1 | | N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.16", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 |
| 13.0 | U+31BC..31BF | 4 | L2/19-100 | | Chan, Eiso (2019-04-08), Preliminary proposal to encode four extended Bopomofo letters for Cantonese |
| 13.0 | U+31BC..31BF | 4 | L2/19-173 | | Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-04-29), "18", Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals |
| 13.0 | U+31BC..31BF | 4 | L2/19-177R | N5052 | Yang, Ben; Chan, Eiso (2019-05-02), Proposal to encode Cantonese Bopomofo Characters |
| 13.0 | U+31BC..31BF | 4 | L2/19-122 | | Moore, Lisa (2019-05-08), "Consensus 159-C21", UTC #159 Minutes |
| 13.0 | U+31BC..31BF | 4 | | N5122 | "M68.10 and M68.19", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 68, 2019-12-31 |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||