Hangul Jamo Extended-A

See also: Hangul Jamo (Unicode block), Hangul Jamo Extended-B, Hangul Compatibility Jamo (Unicode block), and Hangul Syllables (Unicode block)

For a complete list of Hangul jamo, see List of Hangul jamo.

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
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 (2009)	29 (+29)
Unicode documentation
Code chart ∣ Web page
Note: [1][2]

Graphical representation of the Hangul Jamo Extended-A Unicode block

Block

Hangul Jamo Extended-A[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+A96x

ꥠ

ꥡ

ꥢ

ꥣ

ꥤ

ꥥ

ꥦ

ꥧ

ꥨ

ꥩ

ꥪ

ꥫ

ꥬ

ꥭ

ꥮ

ꥯ

U+A97x

ꥰ

ꥱ

ꥲ

ꥳ

ꥴ

ꥵ

ꥶ

ꥷ

ꥸ

ꥹ

ꥺ

ꥻ

ꥼ

Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 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:

Version	Final code points[a]	Count	L2 ID	WG2 ID	Document
5.2	U+A960..A97C	29		N3168R	Kim, Kyongsok (2006-04-23), A Proposal to add new Hangul Jamo extended characters to BMP of UCS
			L2/07-076	N3168	Kim, 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
			L2/07-103	N3242	Proposed allocation of Old Hangul Jamos in the BMP, 2007-04-16
			L2/07-247	N3257	"2", A Proposal to add new Hangul Jamo extended characters to BMP of UCS, 2007-04-23
			L2/07-118R2		Moore, Lisa (2007-05-23), "111-C17", UTC #111 Minutes
			L2/07-268	N3253 (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
			L2/08-003		Moore, Lisa (2008-02-14), "Consensus 114-C28a", UTC #114 Minutes, Correct the names of 3 Hangul characters as approved by prior WG2 resolution...
			L2/08-318	N3453 (pdf, doc)	Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.2d", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
			L2/08-161R2		Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Consensus 115-C15", UTC #115 Minutes, Approve 4 character name corrections...
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names