Bopomofo Extended

See also: Bopomofo (Unicode block)
Bopomofo Extended
RangeU+31A0..U+31BF
(32 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsBopomofo
Major alphabetsphonetic Min Nan and Hakka
Assigned32 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
3.0 (1999)24 (+24)
6.0 (2010)27 (+3)
13.0 (2020)32 (+5)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
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Bopomofo Extended is a Unicode block containing additional Bopomofo characters for writing phonetic Min Nan, Hakka Chinese, Cantonese, Hmu, and Ge. The basic set of Bopomofo characters can be found in the Bopomofo block.

Block

Bopomofo Extended[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+31Ax ㆠ ㆡ ㆢ ㆣ ㆤ ㆥ ㆦ ㆧ ㆨ ㆩ ㆪ ㆫ ㆬ ㆭ ㆮ ㆯ
U+31Bx ㆰ ㆱ ㆲ ㆳ ㆴ ㆵ ㆶ ㆷ ㆸ ㆹ ㆺ ㆻ ㆼ ㆽ ㆾ ㆿ
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 Bopomofo Extended block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
3.0 U+31A0..31B7 24 L2/98-090 N1713R Proposal to add 24 extended Bopomofo and 2 modifier letters for Minnan and Hakka, 1998-03-19
L2/98-158 Aliprand, Joan; Winkler, Arnold (1998-05-26), "Bopomofo Extensions", Draft Minutes – UTC #76 & NCITS Subgroup L2 #173 joint meeting, Tredyffrin, Pennsylvania, April 20-22, 1998
L2/98-286 N1703 Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1998-07-02), "8.25", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting #34, Redmond, WA, USA; 1998-03-16--20
L2/98-321 N1905 Revised text of 10646-1/FPDAM 23, AMENDMENT 23: Bopomofo Extended and other characters, 1998-10-22
L2/18-255 N4980 Tung, Bobby; Ko, But; Wei, Selena (2018-06-13), Proposal to Fix Glyphs in Bopomofo Extended Block and Encode one Bopomofo Letter
6.0 U+31B8..31BA 3 L2/09-049 N3570 West, Andrew (2009-01-25), Proposal to encode three Bopomofo letters for Hmu and Ge
L2/09-003R Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), "B.15.15", UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes
L2/09-234 N3603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.13f", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
13.0 U+31BB 1 L2/18-255 N4980 Tung, Bobby; Ko, But; Wei, Selena (2018-06-13), Proposal to Fix Glyphs in Bopomofo Extended Block and Encode one Bopomofo Letter
L2/18-183 Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), "C.21", UTC #156 Minutes
N5020 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), "10.3.16", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67
U+31BC..31BF 4 L2/19-100 Chan, Eiso (2019-04-08), Preliminary proposal to encode four extended Bopomofo letters for Cantonese
L2/19-173 Anderson, Deborah; et al. (2019-04-29), "18", Recommendations to UTC #159 April-May 2019 on Script Proposals
L2/19-177R N5052 Yang, Ben; Chan, Eiso (2019-05-02), Proposal to encode Cantonese Bopomofo Characters
L2/19-122 Moore, Lisa (2019-05-08), "Consensus 159-C21", UTC #159 Minutes
N5122 "M68.10 and M68.19", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 68, 2019-12-31
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

References

  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.