Hangul Jamo Extended-A

Hangul Jamo Extended-A is a Unicode block containing choseong (initial consonant) forms of archaic Hangul consonant clusters. They can be used to dynamically compose syllables that are not available as precomposed Hangul syllables in Unicode, specifically syllables that are not used in standard modern Korean.

Hangul Jamo Extended-A
RangeU+A960..U+A97F
(32 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsHangul
Major alphabetsHangul
Assigned29 code points
Unused3 reserved code points
Unicode version history
5.2 (2009)29 (+29)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]
Hangul jamo characters in Unicode

Block

Hangul Jamo Extended-A[1][2]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
 0123456789ABCDEF
U+A96x
U+A97x
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 15.1
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[a]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
N3153 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-02-16), "M49.23", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 49 AIST, Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan; 2006-09-25/29
L2/07-103N3242Proposed allocation of Old Hangul Jamos in the BMP, 2007-04-16
L2/07-247N3257"2", A Proposal to add new Hangul Jamo extended characters to BMP of UCS, 2007-04-23
L2/07-118R2Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes
L2/07-268N3253 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-07-26), "M50.34", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 50, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; 2007-04-24/27
L2/08-003Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Consensus 114-C28a", UTC #114 Minutes, Correct the names of 3 Hangul characters as approved by prior WG2 resolution...
L2/08-318N3453 (pdf, doc)Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.2d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
L2/08-161R2Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Consensus 115-C15", UTC #115 Minutes, Approve 4 character name corrections...

References