Hangul Compatibility Jamo

Hangul Compatibility Jamo is a Unicode block containing Hangul characters for compatibility with the South Korean national standard KS X 1001 (formerly KS C 5601). Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Hangul Elements.[3]

Hangul Compatibility Jamo
RangeU+3130..U+318F
(96 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsHangul
Major alphabetsHangul
Assigned94 code points
Unused2 reserved code points
Source standardsKS X 1001 (formerly KS C 5601)
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)94 (+94)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
Hangul Compatibility Jamo block in Unicode

The Hangul Compatibility Jamo block represents consonants in initial and final position with the same codepoints, while the Hangul Jamo block assigns them separate codepoints. [4]

Block edit

Hangul Compatibility Jamo[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+313x
U+314x
U+315x
U+316x   HF  
U+317x
U+318x
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 Compatibility Jamo block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.0.0 U+3131..318E 94 (to be determined)
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
L2/09-096 Sung, Ienup (2009-02-26), Change Proposal for Informative Alias of U+3164 HANGUL FILLER
L2/09-104 Moore, Lisa (2009-05-20), "Scripts — Informative Alias of U+3164 HANGUL FILLER", UTC #119 / L2 #216 Minutes
  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.
  3. ^ "3.8: Block-by-Block Charts" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. version 1.0. Unicode Consortium.
  4. ^ https://python-jamo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/unicode.html#unicode-tutorial

See also edit