What is Hangeul?

Hanguel is the characters used to write Korean. It is basically composed by Jamo (or so-called Korean “alphabets”, as the word “Jamo” or “字母” translated literally) characters, which formed the basics of Korean. When you are processing Unicode Text with Korean, you shall notice the change of the location for Hanguel in various standards of Unicode. In Unicode 2.0 definition, Hanguel consume the code space from \0uAC00 (“가”) to \0uD7A3 (“�R”). Detailed list of characters by code page can be viewed below:

Table List by Code Page:

Table List by Cho-seng:

U+1100; G; HANGEUL CHOSEONG KIYEOK	U+110A; SS; HANGEUL CHOSEONG SSANGSIOS
U+1101; GG; HANGEUL CHOSEONG SSANGKIYEOK	U+110B; ; HANGEUL CHOSEONG IEUNG
U+1102; N; HANGEUL CHOSEONG NIEUN	U+110C; J; HANGEUL CHOSEONG CIEUC
U+1103; D; HANGEUL CHOSEONG TIKEUT	U+110D; JJ; HANGEUL CHOSEONG SSANGCIEUC
U+1104; DD; HANGEUL CHOSEONG SSANGTIKEUT	U+110E; C; HANGEUL CHOSEONG CHIEUCH
U+1105; L; HANGEUL CHOSEONG RIEUL	U+110F; K; HANGEUL CHOSEONG KHIEUKH
U+1106; M; HANGEUL CHOSEONG MIEUM	U+1110; T; HANGEUL CHOSEONG THIEUTH
U+1107; B; HANGEUL CHOSEONG PIEUP	U+1111; P; HANGEUL CHOSEONG PHIEUPH
U+1108; BB; HANGEUL CHOSEONG SSANGPIEUP	U+1112; H; HANGEUL CHOSEONG HIEUH
U+1109; S; HANGEUL CHOSEONG SIOS

In the older standards, however, Unicode 1.0 and 1.1 reserved the space from \0u3400A to \0u4DFF for Hangeul. These space was divided into 3 areas, as follows: