Hangul Jamo Extended-A

Hangul Jamo Extended-A
Range U+A960..U+A97F
(32 code points)
Plane BMP
Scripts Hangul
Major alphabets Hangul
Assigned 29 code points
Unused 3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2 29 (+29)
Note: [1][2]

Hangul Jamo Extended-A is a Unicode block containing positional (Choseong, Jungseong, and Jongseong) forms of archaic Hangul consonant and vowel clusters. They can be used to dynamically compose syllables that are not available as precomposed archaic Hangul syllables in Unicode containing sounds that have since merged phonetically with other sounds in modern pronunciation.

Block

Hangul Jamo Extended-A[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+A96x
U+A97x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 11.0
2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points

History

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

VersionFinal code points[lower-alpha 1]CountL2 IDWG2 IDDocument
5.2U+A960..A97C29N3168RKim, Kyongsok (2006-04-23), A Proposal to add new Hangul Jamo extended characters to BMP of UCS
L2/07-076N3168Kim, Kyongsok (2006-09-27), A Proposal to add new Hangul Jamo extended characters to BMP of UCS
L2/07-103N3242Proposed allocation of Old Hangul Jamos in the BMP, 2007-04-16
L2/07-247N3257A Proposal to add new Hangul Jamo extended characters to BMP of UCS, 2007-04-23
  1. Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names

See also

References

  1. "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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