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Unicode Technical Note #60

Legacy Hangul Syllables Mappings

Version 2
Author Ken Lunde 小林剣
Date 2026-07-02
This Version https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn60/tn60-2.html
Previous Version https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn60/tn60-1.html
Latest Version https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn60/


Summary

This Unicode Technical Note provides historical mappings between the Unicode code points for the 11,172 characters in the Hangul Syllables block (AC00..D7A3) and legacy character set and encoding standards that include hangul syllables.

Status

This document is a Unicode Technical Note. Sole responsibility for its contents rests with the author. Publication does not imply any endorsement by the Unicode Consortium.

For information on Unicode Technical Notes, including criteria for acceptance, see Unicode Technical Notes.

Contents

The body of this Unicode Technical Note is contained in the single-sheet Excel file “tn60-2.xlsx,” along with a tab-delimited data file “tn60-2.txt” with the same content.

Description

The Excel file and the tab-delimited data file cover a total of 11,172 code points, one per row and in increasing code-point order. The following is a description of its nine columns:

  1. Unicode: Unicode Scalar Value
  2. Character: The actual character
  3. Johab: Johab code point in hexadecimal
  4. KS X 1001: KS X 1001 GL (seven-bit) code point in hexadecimal
  5. UHC: Unified Hangul Code (aka Microsoft Code Page 949) code point in hexadecimal
  6. KS X 1002: KS X 1002 GL (seven-bit) code point in hexadecimal
  7. KPS 9566: KPS 9566 GL (seven-bit) code point in hexadecimal
  8. Red Star OS: Red Star OS code point in hexadecimal
  9. GB/T 12052: GB/T 12052 GL (seven-bit) code point in hexadecimal

The mapping data was prepared by Ken Lunde and Jaemin Chung.

Hangul Syllable Coverage Checker

The fields in this section allow one to check whether one or more hangul syllables among the 11,172 characters in the Hangul Syllables block (AC00..D7A3) are included in a legacy character set standard. Other characters that are included as part of the input are ignored.

Character set:



Input:


Are all hangul syllables in the input present in the selected character set?

Results:

The underlying script was developed by Jaemin Chung.

Modifications

The following summarizes modifications from the previous versions of this document:

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