Phonetic Extensions

For a list of all phonetic characters encoded in Unicode, see Phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Unicode character block

Phonetic Extensions

Range| U+1D00..U+1D7F
(128 code points)
Plane| BMP
Scripts| Cyrillic (2 char.)
Greek (15 char.)
Latin (111 char.)
Major alphabets| UPA
Dictionary usage
Assigned| 128 code points
Unused| 0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
4.0 (2003)| 108 (+108)
4.1 (2005)| 128 (+20)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Phonetic Extensions is a Unicode block containing phonetic characters used in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, Old Irish phonetic notation, the Oxford English Dictionary and American dictionaries, and Americanist and Russianist phonetic notations. Its character set is continued in the following Unicode block, Phonetic Extensions Supplement.

## Block

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Phonetic Extensions[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)

| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F
U+1D0x  | ᴀ | ᴁ | ᴂ | ᴃ | ᴄ | ᴅ | ᴆ | ᴇ | ᴈ | ᴉ | ᴊ | ᴋ | ᴌ | ᴍ | ᴎ | ᴏ
U+1D1x  | ᴐ | ᴑ | ᴒ | ᴓ | ᴔ | ᴕ | ᴖ | ᴗ | ᴘ | ᴙ | ᴚ | ᴛ | ᴜ | ᴝ | ᴞ | ᴟ
U+1D2x  | ᴠ | ᴡ | ᴢ | ᴣ | ᴤ | ᴥ | ᴦ | ᴧ | ᴨ | ᴩ | ᴪ | ᴫ | ᴬ | ᴭ | ᴮ | ᴯ
U+1D3x  | ᴰ | ᴱ | ᴲ | ᴳ | ᴴ | ᴵ | ᴶ | ᴷ | ᴸ | ᴹ | ᴺ | ᴻ | ᴼ | ᴽ | ᴾ | ᴿ
U+1D4x  | ᵀ | ᵁ | ᵂ | ᵃ | ᵄ | ᵅ | ᵆ | ᵇ | ᵈ | ᵉ | ᵊ | ᵋ | ᵌ | ᵍ | ᵎ | ᵏ
U+1D5x  | ᵐ | ᵑ | ᵒ | ᵓ | ᵔ | ᵕ | ᵖ | ᵗ | ᵘ | ᵙ | ᵚ | ᵛ | ᵜ | ᵝ | ᵞ | ᵟ
U+1D6x  | ᵠ | ᵡ | ᵢ | ᵣ | ᵤ | ᵥ | ᵦ | ᵧ | ᵨ | ᵩ | ᵪ | ᵫ | ᵬ | ᵭ | ᵮ | ᵯ
U+1D7x  | ᵰ | ᵱ | ᵲ | ᵳ | ᵴ | ᵵ | ᵶ | ᵷ | ᵸ | ᵹ | ᵺ | ᵻ | ᵼ | ᵽ | ᵾ | ᵿ
Notes

1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0

## History

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

Version | Final code points[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document

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4.0 | U+1D00..1D6A | 107 | L2/02-141 | N2419 | Everson, Michael; et al. (2002-03-20), Uralic Phonetic Alphabet characters for the UCS
L2/02-192 |  | Everson, Michael (2002-05-02), Everson's Reply on UPA
| N2442 | Everson, Michael; Kolehmainen, Erkki I.; Ruppel, Klaas; Trosterud, Trond (2002-05-21), Justification for placing the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet in the BMP
L2/02-291 |  | Whistler, Ken (2002-05-31), WG2 report from Dublin
L2/02-292 |  | Whistler, Ken (2002-06-03), Early look at WG2 consent docket
L2/02-166R2 |  | Moore, Lisa (2002-08-09), "Scripts and New Characters - UPA", UTC #91 Minutes
L2/02-253 |  | Moore, Lisa (2002-10-21), "Consensus 92-C2", UTC #92 Minutes
L2/11-043 |  | Freytag, Asmus; Karlsson, Kent (2011-02-02), Proposal to correct mistakes and inconsistencies in certain property assignments for super and subscripted letters
L2/11-016 |  | Moore, Lisa (2011-02-15), "Correct mistakes in property assignments for super and subscripted letters (B.13.4) [U+1D62..1D6A]", UTC #126 / L2 #223 Minutes
L2/11-160 |  | PRI #181 Changing General Category of Twelve Characters, 2011-05-02
U+1D6B | 1 | L2/02-421 | N2514 | Everson, Michael (2002-11-10), Proposal to encode one Latin letter in the UCS
4.1 | U+1D6C..1D76 | 11 | L2/03-174R2 | N2632 | Constable, Peter (2003-09-30), Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Middle Tilde in the UCS
L2/03-240R3 |  | Moore, Lisa (2003-10-21), "Eleven Phonetic Symbols with Middle Tilde (B.14.15)", UTC #96 Minutes
L2/04-132 | N2740 | Constable, Peter (2004-04-19), Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS
U+1D77..1D78 | 2 | L2/99-082 | N1962 | Everson, Michael (1999-02-26), Optimizing Georgian representation in the BMP of the UCS
L2/00-115R2 |  | Moore, Lisa (2000-08-08), Minutes Of UTC Meeting #83
L2/03-230R2 | N2608R2 | Everson, Michael (2003-09-04), Proposal to add Georgian and other characters to the BMP of the UCS
U+1D79 | 1 | L2/03-331 | N2641 | Everson, Michael (2003-10-05), Proposal to encode one Irish phonetic letter in the UCS
U+1D7A | 1 | L2/02-361 |  | Davis, Mark (2002-09-05), Double Combining Stroke
L2/03-136 |  | Moore, Lisa (2003-08-18), "Scripts and New Characters - Double Combining Stroke", UTC #95 Minutes
L2/03-334 | N2645 | Davis, Mark (2003-10-08), Latin Small Letter th with Strikethrough
L2/03-359 | N2656 | Freytag, Asmus (2003-10-15), Phonetic symbols used in Dictionaries
L2/03-356R2 |  | Moore, Lisa (2003-10-22), "Phonetic symbols used in dictionaries (B.14.15)", UTC #97 Minutes
U+1D7B..1D7F | 5 | L2/03-170 |  | Constable, Peter (2003-05-30), Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Retroflex Hook in the UCS
L2/03-169R |  | Constable, Peter (2003-06-06), Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Palatal Hook in the UCS
L2/03-180 |  | Constable, Peter (2003-06-07), Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Modifier Letters in the UCS
L2/03-190R |  | Constable, Peter (2003-06-08), Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Symbols in the UCS
L2/03-136 |  | Moore, Lisa (2003-08-18), "Phonetic Symbols and Modifier Letters", UTC #95 Minutes
L2/04-044 |  | Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Modifier Letters in the UCS
L2/04-045 |  | Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Palatal Hook in the UCS
L2/04-046 |  | Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Phonetic Symbols with Retroflex Hook in the UCS
L2/04-047 |  | Constable, Peter (2004-02-01), Revised Proposal to Encode Additional Phonetic Symbols in the UCS
L2/04-132 | N2740 | Constable, Peter (2004-04-19), Proposal to add additional phonetic characters to the UCS
L2/04-144 |  | Hallissy, Bob (2004-04-27), Soft-dotted characters in the pipeline
L2/04-003R |  | Moore, Lisa (2004-05-17), "Phonetic Modifier Letters (B.14.10), Phonetic Symbols with Palatal Hook (B.14.11), Phonetic Symbols with Retroflex Hook (B.14.12), and Additional Phonetic Symbols (B.14.13)", UTC #98 Minutes

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

## See also

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* Cyrillic script in Unicode
* Greek alphabet in Unicode
* Latin script in Unicode

## References

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1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.