Hangul, Hangul Supplementary-A, and Hangul Supplementary-B were character blocks that existed in
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, ...
1.0 and 1.1, and
ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993. These blocks encoded precomposed modern
Hangul
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The ...
syllables. These three Unicode 1.x blocks were deleted and superseded by the new
Hangul Syllables
Hangul Syllables is a Unicode block containing precomposed Hangul syllable blocks for modern Korean. The syllables can be directly mapped by algorithm to sequences of two or three characters in the Hangul Jamo Unicode block:
* one of U+1100–U+ ...
block (U+AC00–U+D7AF) in Unicode 2.0 (July 1996) and ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 Amd. 5 (1998), and are now occupied by
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension-A is a Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and doc ...
and
Yijing Hexagram Symbols. Moving or removing existing characters has been prohibited by the Unicode Stability Policy for all versions following Unicode 2.0, so the Hangul Syllables block introduced in Unicode 2.0 is immutable.
Documentation
The Unicode 1.0.0 code chart is still available online, including the Korean Hangul Syllables block, but not the supplements added in Unicode 1.1.
Full code charts for Unicode 1.1 were "never created", since Unicode 1.1 was published only as a report amending Unicode 1.0 due to the urgency of releasing it; however, full code charts for ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 were available, covering all three blocks.
Data for mapping between Unicode 1.1, Unicode 2.0 and other hangul encodings has been supplied by the Unicode Consortium. This data is archived as historic, but contains errors; an errata document is also supplied which corrects the mappings with reference to decompositions from the Unicode Character Database for Unicode 1.1.5,
which is itself also available.
However, the Unicode 1.1.5 data itself contains some errors; corrected data with reference to the ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 code charts and the source standards is documented in the
Unicode Technical Committee document UTC L2/17-080.
* U+384E: 삤 in the Unicode Character Database for Unicode 1.1.5, but 삣 in the Unicode 1.0 and ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 code charts and per the source standard mappings
* U+40BC: 삣 in the Unicode Character Database for Unicode 1.1.5, but 삤 in the ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 code charts and per the source standard mappings
* U+436C: 콫 in the Unicode Character Database for Unicode 1.1.5, but 콪 in the ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 code charts and per the source standard mappings
Korean Hangul Syllables block
Hangul (U+3400–U+3D2D),
also called Korean Hangul Syllables,
consisted of 2,350 syllables from KS C 5601-1987 (now
KS X 1001
KS X 1001, "''Code for Information Interchange (Hangul and Hanja)''", formerly called KS C 5601, is a South Korean coded character set standard to represent hangul and hanja characters on a computer.
KS X 1001 is encoded by the most common le ...
). This block was encoded from Unicode 1.0.0 and included in the main code chart (without character names)
but not in the block charts (which included character names).
Hangul Supplementary-A block
Hangul Supplementary-A (U+3D2E–U+44B7)
consisted of 1,930 syllables from KS C 5657-1991 (now
KS X 1002
KS X 1002 (formerly KS C 5657) is a South Korean character set standard that is established in order to supplement KS X 1001. It consists of a total of 7,649 characters.
Unlike KS X 1001, KS X 1002 is not encoded in any legacy encoding. Even in 1 ...
).
Hangul Supplementary-B block
Hangul Supplementary-B (U+44B8–U+4DFF)
consisted of six syllables from
GB 12052 GB 12052-89, entitled ''Korean character coded character set for information interchange'' ( zh, s=信息交换用朝鲜文字编码字符集), is a Korean-language character set standard established by China. It consists of a total of 5,979 chara ...
-89 (U+44B8–U+44BD) and the first 2,370 syllables that are not in the aforementioned three sets (U+44BE–U+4DFF).
See also
*
Tibetan (obsolete Unicode block)
References
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Miscellaneous Unicode blocks
Hangul