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Hangul Jamo (Unicode block)

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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]
Graphical representation of the Hangul Jamo Unicode block

Hangul Jamo is a Unicode block containing positional (choseong, jungseong, and jongseong) forms of Hangul consonant and vowel clusters (jamo). 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.

In Unicode normalization forms C and KC (NFC and NFKC), the character sequence [ᄀ-ᄒ][ᅡ-ᅵ][ᆨ-ᇂ]? (one character from U+1100 to U+1112, and then one character from U+1161 to U+1175, and then optionally one character from U+11A8 to U+11C2) is converted to a single character in the Hangul Syllables Unicode block (e.g. ᄉ+ᅫ+ᆵ (U+1109, U+116B, U+11B5) → 쇒 (U+C1D2)).

Block

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Hangul Jamo[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
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 17.0
2. Yellow background: Modern-usage characters which can be converted into precomposed Hangul syllables under Unicode normalization forms C and KC (NFC and NFKC).
Other characters are used for archaic Korean only, and there are no corresponding precomposed Hangul syllables.
"Conjoining Jamo Behavior" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. March 2020.

History

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

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.

See also

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