Katakana (Unicode block)
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Katakana is a Unicode block containing katakana characters for the Japanese and Ainu languages.
| Katakana | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+30A0..U+30FF (96 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Katakana (93 char.) Common (3 char.) |
| Major alphabets | Japanese Ainu |
| Assigned | 96 code points |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points |
| Source standards | JIS X 0208 |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 (1991) | 90 (+90) |
| 1.1 (1993) | 94 (+4) |
| 3.2 (2002) | 96 (+2) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Block
| Katakana[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+30Ax | ゠ | ァ | ア | ィ | イ | ゥ | ウ | ェ | エ | ォ | オ | カ | ガ | キ | ギ | ク |
| U+30Bx | グ | ケ | ゲ | コ | ゴ | サ | ザ | シ | ジ | ス | ズ | セ | ゼ | ソ | ゾ | タ |
| U+30Cx | ダ | チ | ヂ | ッ | ツ | ヅ | テ | デ | ト | ド | ナ | ニ | ヌ | ネ | ノ | ハ |
| U+30Dx | バ | パ | ヒ | ビ | ピ | フ | ブ | プ | ヘ | ベ | ペ | ホ | ボ | ポ | マ | ミ |
| U+30Ex | ム | メ | モ | ャ | ヤ | ュ | ユ | ョ | ヨ | ラ | リ | ル | レ | ロ | ヮ | ワ |
| U+30Fx | ヰ | ヱ | ヲ | ン | ヴ | ヵ | ヶ | ヷ | ヸ | ヹ | ヺ | ・ | ー | ヽ | ヾ | ヿ |
Notes
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History
Summarize
Perspective
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Katakana block:
| Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | U+30A1..30F6, 30FB..30FE | 90 | (to be determined) | ||
| 1.1 | U+30F7..30FA | 4 | (to be determined) | ||
| 3.2 | U+30A0, 30FF | 2 | L2/99-238 | Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 1999-07-15 | |
| N2092 | Addition of forty eight characters, 1999-09-13 | ||||
| L2/00-024 | Shibano, Kohji (2000-01-31), JCS proposal revised | ||||
| L2/00-098, L2/00-098-page5 | N2195 | Rationale for non-Kanji characters proposed by JCS committee, 2000-03-15 | |||
| L2/00-234 | N2203 (rtf, txt) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-07-21), "8.20", Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24 | |||
| L2/00-298 | N2258 | Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-2 | |||
| L2/00-342 | N2278 | Sato, T. K.; Everson, Michael; Whistler, Ken; Freytag, Asmus (2000-09-20), Ad hoc Report on Japan feedback N2257 and N2258 | |||
| L2/01-050 | N2253 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), "7.16 JIS X0213 Symbols", Minutes of the SC2/WG2 meeting in Athens, September 2000 | |||
| L2/01-114 | N2328 | Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3503, ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000/PDAM 1, 2001-03-09 | |||
See also
- Katakana Phonetic Extensions (Unicode block)
- Kana Extended-A (Unicode block)
- Kana Extended-B (Unicode block)
- Kana Supplement (Unicode block)
- Small Kana Extension (Unicode block)
- Hiragana (Unicode block)
- CJK Compatibility (Unicode block)
- Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (Unicode block)
- Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (Unicode block)
References
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