title: Katakana Phonetic Extensions
text: # Katakana Phonetic Extensions
  
  Katakana Phonetic Extensions is a Unicode block containing additional small katakana characters for writing the Ainu language, in addition to characters in the Katakana block.
  
  Further small katakana are present in the Small Kana Extension block.
  
  Katakana Phonetic Extensions Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
  
  | | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | U+31Fx | ㇰ | ㇱ | ㇲ | ㇳ | ㇴ | ㇵ | ㇶ | ㇷ | ㇸ | ㇹ | ㇺ | ㇻ | ㇼ | ㇽ | ㇾ | ㇿ |
  | Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 15.0 |||||||||||||||||
  
  ## History
  
  The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Katakana Phonetic Extensions block:
  
  | Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 3.2 | U+31F0..31FF | 16 | L2/99-238 | | Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals, 1999-07-15 |
  | 3.2 | U+31F0..31FF | 16 | | N2092 | Addition of forty eight characters, 1999-09-13 |
  | 3.2 | U+31F0..31FF | 16 | L2/99-365 | | Moore, Lisa (1999-11-23), Comments on JCS Proposals |
  | 3.2 | U+31F0..31FF | 16 | L2/00-024 | | Shibano, Kohji (2000-01-31), JCS proposal revised |
  | 3.2 | U+31F0..31FF | 16 | L2/99-260R | | Moore, Lisa (2000-02-07), "JCS Proposals", Minutes of the UTC/L2 meeting in Mission Viejo, October 26-28, 1999 |
  | 3.2 | U+31F0..31FF | 16 | L2/00-297 | N2257 | Sato, T. K. (2000-09-04), JIS X 0213 symbols part-1 |
  | 3.2 | U+31F0..31FF | 16 | 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 |
  | 3.2 | U+31F0..31FF | 16 | 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 |
  | 3.2 | U+31F0..31FF | 16 | L2/01-114 | N2328 | Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3503, ISO/IEC 10646-1: 2000/PDAM 1, 2001-03-09 |
  | ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ||||||
  