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Unicode Status for Hangul

In The Unicode Standard, Hangul implementation is discussed in Chapter 18: East Asia.

Hangul was first encoded in The Unicode Standard version 1.1. The script is now encoded in the following blocks:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionDocumentation
Hangul Jamo1100..11FF1.1U1100.pdf
CJK Symbols and Punctuation302E..302F1.1U3000.pdf
Hangul Compatibility Jamo3130..318F1.1U3130.pdf
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months3200..32FF1.1U3200.pdf
Hangul Jamo Extended-AA960..A97F5.2UA960.pdf
Hangul SyllablesAC00..D7A32.0UAC00.pdf
Hangul Jamo Extended-BD7B0..D7FF5.2UD7B0.pdf
Halfwidth and Fullwidth FormsFFA0..FFBE, FFC2..FFC7, FFCA..FFCF, FFD2..FFD7, FFDA..FFDC1.1UFF00.pdf

Subsequent to version 1.1, the following characters have been added to the Hangul blocks:

CharactersUnicode VersionDocumentation
115A..115E5.2n3168.pdf L2/07-076 and n3242.pdf L2/07-103
11A3..11A75.2n3168.pdf L2/07-076 and n3242.pdf L2/07-103
11FA..11FF5.2n3168.pdf L2/07-076 and n3242.pdf L2/07-103
321D..321E4.0n2392.pdf L2/01-388
327C..327D4.0n2392.pdf L2/01-388
327E4.1n2815.doc L2/04-267
A960..A97C5.2n3168.pdf L2/07-076 and n3242.pdf L2/07-103
D7B0..D7C65.2n3168.pdf L2/07-076 and n3242.pdf L2/07-103
D7CB..D7FB5.2n3168.pdf L2/07-076 and n3242.pdf L2/07-103

Documentation refers to ISO Working Group and Unicode proposals

A number of proposals for its inclusion were submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:

  • 1993-10-28 Adding two Bangjeom characters (old Hangul tone marks) to UCS-2 — Kyongsok Kim (WG2 N0935 (not online), L2/97-015 (not online))

  • 1993-10-29 A draft proposal on adding Gugyeol characters to UCS-2 — Kyongsok Kim (WG2 N936 (not online), L2/97-016 (not online))

  • 1997-05-27 Report on JTC1 letter ballot on DAM No. 5 to ISO/IEC 10646-1 (Hangul) — B. Paterson (WG2 N1561 (not online), L2/97-125 (not online))

  • 1997-06-30 Proposal Summary form for two Bangjeom characters (Old Hangul tone marks) — Korea (WG2 N1599 (not online), L2/97-149 (not online))

  • 1997-06-30 Korean proposal on Gugyeol, reference N 936 — Korea (WG2 N1606 (not online), L2/97-151 (not online))

  • 1998-12-08 Hangul syllable name rules, proposed for ISO/IEC 10646 2nd edition — Bruce Paterson (WG2 N1942.doc, L2/99-022)

  • 1999-07-29 Proposal for a “more reasonable Korean Coded Character Set” KPS 9566-97 and GP 12052-89 — DPRK (WG2 N2056, L2/99-353)

  • 1999-12-07 New Work item proposal (NP) for an amendment of the Korean part of ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993 — Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (L2/99-380)

  • 1999-12-07 DPRK NP - JTC1 5999 p 1-5, originally submitted as WG2 N2056 (for full document see L2/99-380) — DPRK (WG2 N2182, L2/00-084)

  • 2000-02-03 Expert contribution on the placement of additional unified ideographs from JIS X0213, HK, and Korea — V.S. Umamaheswaran, Murray Sargent (L2/00-036)

  • 2000-02-10 Technical justification of the proposal to amend the Korean character part of ISO/IEC 10646-1 and proposed addition of 79 symbolic characters — D.P.R. of Korea (WG2 N2170.doc, L2/00-066)

  • 2000-03-02 Comments on DPRK New Work Item proposal on Korean characters — Kent Karlsson (WG2 N2167.doc, L2/00-073)

  • 2000-03-19 South Korea’s comments on N2056 (L2/00-084) — G. Gim, K. Kim (WG2 N2193.doc, L2/00-095)

  • 2000-07-05 Letter from DPRK on ISO 10646 — DPRK (L2/00-229)

  • 2000-08-10 Proposal for the addition of 14 Korean Alphabets to 10646-1 — DPRK Korea (WG2 N2243, L2/00-284)

  • 2000-08-10 Proposal to change existing name of Korean characters in 10646-1 — DPRK Korea (WG2 N2245, L2/00-286)

  • 2000-08-10 Evidence for arrangement of Korean characters proposed by CSK — DPRK Korea (WG2 N2246, L2/00-287)

  • 2000-08-30 (SC2.584) Comments to Korean proposals (L2/00-284 - 289) — Michael Everson (L2/00-291)

  • 2000-09-13 ROK’s Comments about DPRK’s proposals (WG2 N2231, 2243-2247) — Kyongsok KIM (WG2 N2269.doc, L2/00-333)

  • 2001-02-24 A Report of Korean Script ad-hoc group — Korean ad-hoc (WG2 N2331, L2/01-128)

  • 2001-09-03 Proposal to add the Hanja code tables of D P R of Korea into ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000(18194 ideographs to CJK Unified Ideographs and its Extension A) (includes Mapping table in plain text format) — DPRK (WG2 N2376.doc, L2/01-352 (same document as L2/01-351, separate cover and table)

  • 2001-10-13 ROK’s comments about DPRK’s proposal to add 70 symbols to ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 — Kyongsok KIM (WG2 N2390, L2/01-387)

  • 2001-10-16 A Report of Korean Script ad hoc group meeting on Oct. 15, 2001 — Kyongsok Kim (WG2 N2392, L2/01-388)

  • 2001-10-30 New ordering rules for Hangul, including rules for historic characters, and a DPRK delta — Kent Karlsson (L2/01-402 See L2/01-469)

  • 2001-11-16 Request to Korean ad hoc group to generate mapping tables between ROK and DPRK national standards from US NB and Unicode — V.S. Umamaheswaran (WG2 N2407.doc, L2/01-458)

  • 2001-11-29 Ordering rules for Hangul — Kent Karlsson (L2/01-469 repl. L2/01-402)

  • 2002-02-23 Additional Hangul character decompositions for the proper support of Hangul — Kent Karlsson (L2/02-109)

  • 2002-04-30 New canonical decomposition & composition processes for Hangeul — Kyongsok Kim (L2/02-236)

  • 2002-05-22 Proposal to add the 122 compatibility Hanja code table of the D P R of Korea into the CJK Compatibility Ideographs of ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000 — Takayuki K.Sato,Tatsuo L. Kobayashi, Pak Tong Gi (WG2 N2493.doc, L2/02-232)

  • 2002-06-10 Problems with the current CTT of ISO/IEC 14651 re Hangeul — Kyongsok Kim (L2/02-242)

  • 2002-06-10 New canonical decomposition & composition processes for Hangeul (better scan / modification of L2/02-236) — Kyongsok Kim (L2/02-244)

  • 2002-08-19 Hangeul related portion of CTT in ISO/IEC 14651 — Kyongsok Kim (L2/02-308)

  • 2003-02-11 Hangeul-related portion of CTT in ISO/IEC 14651 — Kyongsok Kim (L2/03-054)

  • 2003-02-11 Hangeul-related issues in UAX #15 — Kyongsok Kim (L2/03-055)

  • 2003-02-28 Hangul Collation Requirements — Mark Davis (L2/03-081)

  • 2003-03-04 Hangul Mapping Errors — Peter Edberg (L2/03-100)

  • 2003-06-21 Ordering Rules for Hangul — Kent Karlsson (L2/03-221)

  • 2003-07-11 Data table for Hangul Ordering (to accompany L2/03-221) — Kent Karlsson (L2/03-222)

  • 2004-03-09 Ordering rules for Hangul; CTT suggestion [WG2-N2715] — Kent Karlsson (WG2 N2715.doc, L2/04-108)

  • 2004-10-21 Unicode 1 Hangul Mapping Errors — Andrew C West (L2/04-392)

  • 2005-01-25 Korean Transliteration Rules (Response to Action Item AI-43-11) — Kyongsok Kim (WG2 N2918, L2/05-032)

  • 2005-09-14 Request to clarify text on conjoining Jamo — Asmus Freytag, Ken Whistler (WG2 N2994.doc L2/05-264)

  • 2005-09-15 Clause 26.1 of ISO/IEC 10646:2003 — Korea N.B. (WG2 N2996.doc, L2/05-265)

  • 2005-09-15 Clarification concerning Hangul syllable method — Michel Suignard (WG2 N3006, L2/05-269)

  • 2005-12-05 Proposal to add the property Jamo_Short_Name property — Eric Muller (L2/05-379)

  • 2006-07-14 A new model for using Hangul Jamo — Korea N. B. (WG2 N3113.doc, L2/06-289)

  • 2006-08-09 Hangul Jamo and Hangul precomposed syllable description — Kent Karlsson (WG2 N3124, L2/06-295)

  • 2006-09-24 Auxiliary character decompositions for supporting Hangul (including data files) — Kent Karlsson (L2/06-310)

  • 2006-09-27 A Proposal to add new Hangul Jamo extended characters to BMP of UCS — Kim, Kyongsok, Dae Hyuk Ahn (WG2 N3168, L2/07-076)

  • 2006-09-27 Add annotations for existing 5 Hangul Jamo names — KIM, Kyongsok; Dae Hyuk Ahn (WG2 N3172, L2/07-075)

  • 2006-11-07 Sino-Korean number syllables — Kent Karlsson (L2/06-383)

  • 2007-04-16 Proposal for allocation of proposed Hangul Jamos in the BMP — Ireland N.B. (WG2 N3242, L2/07-103)

  • 2007-04-17 A proposed method of preprocessing Hangul to be included as an Annex of ISO/IEC 14651 — Republic of Korea (L2/07-112)

  • 2007-04-22 Regarding ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N3925 — Kent Karlsson (L2/07-122)

  • 2007-04-23 A Proposal to add new Hangul Jamo extended characters to BMP of UCS — Kim, Kyongsok, Dae Hyuk Ahn (WG2 N3257.doc, L2/07-247)

  • 2008-02-01 Proposal to add Nine Multi-Letter Jamo Characters — Kent Karlsson (L2/08-084)

  • 2008-05-02 An introduction of Korean Standard KS X 1026-1:2007, Hangul processing guide for information interchange — Korea NB / Kyongsok Kim (WG2 N3422, L2/08-225)

  • 2008-10-14 A response to AI-52-8 — Korea NB / Kyongsok Kim (WG2 N3535, L2/08-375)

  • 2009-02-26 Change Proposal for Informative Alias of U+3164 HANGUL FILLER — Ienup Sung (L2/09-096)

  • 2009-04-19 Clarification Regarding Use of Jamo Filler Characters: US / UTC Response to N3535, N3422 — USNB / UTC (WG2 N3624, L2/09-149)

  • 2009-04-20 A response to AI-53-9-a and AI-53-9-b — Korea NB / Kyongsok Kim (WG2 N3611, L2/09-159)

  • 2010-01-25 A solution proposed by R.O.Korea for incorrectly mapped compatibility chars — Korea N.B. (L2/10-087)

  • 2010-09-20 R. O. Korea’s Response to AI 55-2-a RE: K2 ~ K5 and M55.18 (Missing documents for Korean source references K2 to K5) — Korea N.B. (WG2 N3898, L2/10-366)

  • 2011-10-20 Proposal to change the General_Category of Hangul tone marks U+302E and U+302F — Peter Constable, Laurențiu Iancu, Dwayne Robinson (L2/11-402)

  • 2015-03-20 kKorean vs. kHangul — Jaemin Chung (L2/15-096)

  • 2016-11-08 Proposal to add formal aliases to U+11EC through U+11EF — Jaemin Chung (L2/16-363)

  • 2017-03-29 Informative document about three pre-Unicode-2.0 modern hangul syllables — Jaemin Chung (L2/17-080)

  • 2017-03-30 Proposal to add an informative note to U+3164 HANGUL FILLER — Jaemin Chung (L2/17-081)

  • 2017-04-06 Proposal to add kKoreanName and kKoreanNameVariant to the Unihan Database — Jaemin Chung (L2/17-084)

  • 2017-04-07 Proposal to add informative notes and cross-reference to U+F92C and U+F9B8 — Jaemin Chung (L2/17-090)

  • 2017-04-27 Preliminary Proposal for Encoding New Hangul — S. and S. Oh (L2/17-125)

  • 2017-04-28 Hangul sorting order and the Unicode Collation Algorithm — Jaemin Chung (L2/17-078)

  • 2017-05-02 Comments on L2/17-125, “Preliminary Proposal for Encoding New Hangul characters (for some English consonant sounds)” — Jaemin Chung (L2/17-126)

    • Recommendations to UTC #152 July-August 2017 on Script Proposals (L2/17-255) (See point 20.)

    • UTC #152 Minutes (L2/17-222) (See C.20 for decision and action items)

  • 2017-05-05 Proposal to add “Deprecated” property to halfwidth hangul jamo characters — Jaemin Chung (L2/17-118)

  • 2017-07-24 Follow-up to L2/17-125 “Preliminary Proposal for Encoding New Hangul” and L2/17-126 “Comments on L2/17-125” — S. and S. Oh (L2/17-241)

    • Recommendations to UTC #152 July-August 2017 on Script Proposals (L2/17-255) (See point 20.)

    • UTC #152 Minutes (L2/17-222) (See C.20 for decision and action items)

  • 2017-07-26 Comments on L2/17-241 — Jaemin Chung (L2/17-248)

  • 2019-06-24 Amended Proposal to add the “6 letters” (Hangul Jamo) — Obayashi Muneaki (L2/19-230)

    • Recommendations to UTC #160 July 2019 on Script Proposals (L2/19-286) (See point 14.)

    • UTC #160 Minutes (L2/19-270) (See C.12 for decision and action items)

  • 2019-06-25 Comments on L2/19-230R (six hangul jamo letters) — Jaemin Chung (L2/19-233)

  • 2019-06-26 Oppose the L2/19230 document of Hangul Letters — Sim CheonHyeong (L2/19-234)

  • 2019-06-28 Comments on Mr. 小林 Muneaki’s newly preparing document (hangul) — Sim CheonHyeong (L2/19-248)

  • 2019-07-02 Comments on L2/19-230R (six Hangul jamos) — Kyongsok Kim (L2/19-251)

  • 2019-07-02 My idea about the comments of 2 Drs. (hangul jamos) — Obayashi Muneaki (L2/19-253)

  • 2019-07-03 Comments on L2/19-253 (hangul jamos) — Jaemin Chung (L2/19-255)

  • 2022-06-14 Response to PRI 451 — Asmus Freytag (L2/22-114)

    • UTC #172 Minutes (L2/22-121) (See F.3 for decision and action items)

  • 2022-06-30 Feedback on Hangul Strokes — Kyongsok Kim (L2/22-137)

    • UTC #172 Minutes (L2/22-121) (See E.1 14 for decision and action items)