Hangul Jamo (Unicode block)

Summary

Hangul Jamo (Korean: 한글 자모, Korean pronunciation: [ˈha̠ːnɡɯɭ t͡ɕa̠mo̞]) is a Unicode block containing positional (choseong, jungseong, and jongseong) forms of the Hangul consonant and vowel clusters. While the Hangul Syllables Unicode block contains precomposed syllables used in standard modern Korean, the Hangul Jamo block can be used to compose arbitrary syllables dynamically including those not included in the Hangul Syllables block.

Hangul Jamo
RangeU+1100..U+11FF
(256 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsHangul
Major alphabetsHangul
Assigned256 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Unicode version history
1.1 (1993)240 (+240)
5.2 (2009)256 (+16)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
Hangul jamo characters in Unicode

Block edit

Hangul Jamo[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+110x
U+111x
U+112x
U+113x
U+114x
U+115x  HC 
F
U+116x  HJ 
F
U+117x
U+118x
U+119x
U+11Ax
U+11Bx
U+11Cx
U+11Dx
U+11Ex
U+11Fx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2. : Hangul jamo with a green background are modern-usage characters which can be converted into precomposed Hangul syllables under Unicode normalization form NFC.
Hangul jamo with a white background are used for archaic Korean only, and there are no corresponding precomposed Hangul syllables.
"Conjoining Jamo Behavior" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. March 2020.

History edit

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

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.1 U+1100..1159, 115F..11A2, 11A8..11F9 240 (to be determined)
N767 Ksar, Mike (1991-11-25), Unconfirmed minutes WG2-Paris meeting of October 1991
L2/05-379 Muller, Eric (2005-12-05), Proposal to add the property Jamo_Short_Name property
L2/06-008R2 Moore, Lisa (2006-02-13), "Jamo_Short_Name property (B.14.3)", UTC #106 Minutes
L2/07-075 N3172 Kim, Kyongsok (2006-09-27), Add annotations for existing 5 Hangul Jamo names
L2/07-247 N3257 "3", A Proposal to add new Hangul Jamo extended characters to BMP of UCS, 2007-04-23
L2/16-363 Chung, Jaemin (2016-11-08), Proposal to add formal aliases to U+11EC through U+11EF
L2/16-325 Moore, Lisa (2016-11-18), "B.14.10", UTC #149 Minutes
5.2 U+115A..115E, 11A3..11A7, 11FA..11FF 16 N3168R Kim, Kyongsok (2006-04-23), A Proposal to add new Hangul Jamo extended characters to BMP of UCS
L2/07-076 N3168 Kim, Kyongsok (2006-09-27), A Proposal to add new Hangul Jamo extended characters to BMP of UCS
N3153 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), "M49.23", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29
L2/07-103 N3242 Proposed allocation of Old Hangul Jamos in the BMP, 2007-04-16
L2/07-247 N3257 "2", A Proposal to add new Hangul Jamo extended characters to BMP of UCS, 2007-04-23
L2/07-118R2 Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes
L2/07-268 N3253 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.34", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
L2/08-003 Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Consensus 114-C28a", UTC #114 Minutes, Correct the names of 3 Hangul characters as approved by prior WG2 resolution...
L2/08-318 N3453 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.2d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
L2/08-161R2 Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Consensus 115-C15", UTC #115 Minutes, Approve 4 character name corrections...
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

References edit

  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.

See also edit