Hiragana (Unicode block)

Short description: Unicode character block

Hiragana

Range| U+3040..U+309F
(96 code points)
Plane| BMP
Scripts| Hiragana (89 char.)
Common (2 char.)
Inherited (2 char.)
Major alphabets| Japanese
Assigned| 93 code points
Unused| 3 reserved code points
Source standards| JIS X 0208
Unicode version history
1.0.0| 90 (+90)
3.2| 93 (+3)
Note: [1][2]

Hiragana is a Unicode block containing hiragana characters for the Japanese language.

## Contents

* 1 Block
* 2 History
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Block

## History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Hiragana block:

Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document

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1.0.0 | U+3041..3094, 3099..309E | 90 |  |  | (to be determined)
3.2 | U+3095..3096, 309F | 3 | L2/99-238 |  |  Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 1999-07-15
| N2092 |  Addition of forty eight characters, 1999-09-13
L2/99-365 |  | Moore, Lisa (1999-11-23), Comments on JCS Proposals
L2/00-024 |  | Shibano, Kohji (2000-01-31), JCS proposal revised
L2/99-260R |  | Moore, Lisa (2000-02-07), Minutes of the UTC/L2 meeting in Mission Viejo, October 26-28, 1999
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), Minutes from the SC2/WG2 meeting in Beijing, 2000-03-21 -- 24
L2/00-115R2 |  | Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83
L2/00-297 | N2257 | Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-1
L2/00-298 | N2258 | Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-2
L2/01-050 | N2253 | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-01-21), 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

1. ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

## See also

* Enclosed Ideographic Supplement (Unicode block) has a single hiragana character: U+1F200
* Kana Supplement (Unicode block) has a single katakana and 255 hentaigana characters
* Kana Extended-A (Unicode block) continues with additional 31 hentaigana characters
* Kana Extended-B (Unicode block) continues with additional kana for Taiwanese Hokkien
* Small Kana Extension (Unicode block) has four hiragana characters: U+1B132 and U+1B150–U+1B152

## References

1. ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/.
2. ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html.

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