Kana Supplement is a Unicode block containing one archaic katakana character and 255 hentaigana (non-standard Hiragana) characters. Additional hentaigana characters are encoded in the Kana Extended-A block.
Block
History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Kana Supplement block:
Version Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document 6.0 U+1B000..1B001 2 N3388 N3394 N3528 doc) doc) N4731 10.0 U+1B002..1B0FF 254 N3698 doc) N4103 N4670 N4674 xlsx) xlsx) N4708 xlsx) N4732 N4743 doc)
Fonts As of 26 May 2024, 5 fonts are known to support the 10.0 Kana Supplement range:
BabelStone Han. HanaMinA. IPA MJ Mincho. Noto Serif Hentaigana Sukima Gothic.
See also Hiragana (Unicode block) Katakana (Unicode block) Kana Extended-A (Unicode block) Kana Extended-B (Unicode block) Small Kana Extension (Unicode block)
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