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Unicode Status for Hiragana

In The Unicode Standard, Hiragana implementation is discussed in Chapter 18: East Asia.

Hiragana was first encoded in The Unicode Standard version 1.0. The script is encoded in the following blocks:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionDocumentation
Hiragana3040..309F1.0U3040
Kana Supplement1B0016.0U1B000
Enclosed Ideographic Supplement1F2005.2U1F200

Subsequent to version 1.1, the following characters have been added to the Hiragana block:

CharactersUnicode VersionDocumentation
3095..30963.2n2092.pdf, n2195.doc L2/00-098
309F3.2n2092.pdf, n2195.doc L2/00-098
1F23B9.0

Documentation refers to ISO Working Group and Unicode proposals

A number of documents have been submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:

  • 2000-03-15 Rationale for non-Kanji characters proposed by JCS committee — Japan NB (WG2 N2092, WG2 N2195.doc , L2/00-098)

  • 2000-09-20 Ad hoc Report on Japan feedback N2257 and N2258 — T. K. Sato, Michael Everson, Ken Whistler, Asmus Freytag (WG2 N2278, L2/00-342)

  • 2004-05-12 Hiragana_or_Katakana value of Script property should die — John Cowan (L2/04-160)

  • 2004-06-17 Katakana_Or_Hiragana and UTR#29 — Mark Davis (L2/04-152)

  • 2009-02-15 A proposal for encoding the hentaigana characters — Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven (WG2 N3698, L2/09-099)

  • 2011-06-01 Notes on hentaigana — Japan NB (WG2 N4091, WG2 N4091.doc, L2/11-229)

  • 2015-07-22 Request for Comments on HENTAIGANA proposal (WG2 N4670; with repertoire attached) — Japan N.B. / Tetsuji Orita (L2/15-193)

  • 2015-09-18 Proposal of Japanese HENTAIGANA — Japan N.B. (L2/15-239)

  • 2015-10-31 Hentaigana List after Matsue discussion — Shuichi Tashiro (L2/15-300)

  • 2015-11-03 About the inclusion of standardized codepoints for Hentaigana — Tomokazu Takada, et al (L2/15-316)

  • 2015-11-04 About the inclusion of standardized codepoints for Hentaigana (also XLSX sheet) — Tsutomu Yada (L2/15-318)

  • 2015-12-09 Revised Proposal of HENTAIGANA (replaces L2/15-193; with repertoire attached; see also spreadsheet) — Japan N.B. / Tetsuji Orita (L2/15-343)

    • UTC #147 Minutes (L2/16-121) (See C.3 for decision and action items)

  • 2015-12-09 Hentaigana proposal — Nicolas Tranter (L2/15-334)

  • 2015-12-16 Hentaigana Comment Document — Ken Lunde (L2/16-053)

    • UTC #147 Minutes (L2/16-121) (See C.3 for decision and action items)

  • 2016-01-26 Hentaigana Unification Candidates — Ken Lunde (L2/16-040)

  • 2016-04-28 Status of hentaigana proposal — Ken Lunde (L2/16-085)

    • UTC #147 Minutes (L2/16-121) (See C.3 for decision and action items)

  • 2016-05-10 Proposal for Japanese vowels with the voiced sound mark as named sequences — Hiroyuki Komatsu (L2/16-133)

    • UTC #147 Minutes (L2/16-121) (See B.15.5 for decision and action items)

  • 2016-06-20 Revised Proposal of Hentaigana (with associated spreadsheet) — Japan N.B. (L2/16-188)

    • Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals — Deborah Anderson, Ken Whistler, Rick McGowan, Roozbeh Pournader, Andrew Glass, Laurentiu Iancu, and Lisa Moore (L2/16-216) (See section 6a for recommendations)

    • UTC #148 Minutes (L2/16-203) (See C.3.1 for decision and action items)

  • 2016-06-20 Proposal to add a new character name alias to U+1B001 — Japan N.B. (L2/16-189)

    • Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals — Deborah Anderson, Ken Whistler, Rick McGowan, Roozbeh Pournader, Andrew Glass, Laurentiu Iancu, and Lisa Moore (L2/16-216) (See section 6b for recommendations)

    • UTC #148 Minutes (L2/16-203) (See B.15.2 for decision and action items)