Katakana (Unicode block)

This article is about a Unicode block. For the syllabary, see Katakana.

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:

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 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0

History

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

Version	Final code points	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)