Hangul Jamo Extended-A

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Hangul Jamo Extended-A
RangeU+A960..U+A97F
(32 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsHangul
Major alphabetsHangul
Assigned29 code points
Unused3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2 (2009)29 (+29)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
Hangul jamo characters in Unicode

Hangul Jamo Extended-A is a Unicode block containing choseong (initial consonant) forms of archaic Hangul consonant clusters. They can be used to dynamically compose syllables that are not available as precomposed Hangul syllables in Unicode, specifically syllables that are not used in standard modern Korean.

Block[edit]

Hangul Jamo Extended-A[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+A96x
U+A97x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History[edit]

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

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
5.2 U+A960..A97C 29 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.