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

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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

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The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Hangul Compatibility 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.
  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 [bare URL]

See also

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