Jamo (alias for Jamo subset of Hangul)

East Asian

script: Jamo

family: East Asian

type: featural

whitespace: between words

open_type_tag: none

complex_positioning: no

unicode: true

status: Current

baseline: unspecified

ligatures: unspecified

direction: ltr

Hangul is the phonetic writing system developed in 1446 for writing the Korean language. The Unicode Standard contains both the complete set of precomposed modern Hangul syllable blocks and a set of conjoining Hangul Jamo. These are the individual letters which combine to form Hangul syllables.

The conjoining Hangul Jamo can be used to represent all of the modern Hangul syllable blocks, as well as the ancient syllable blocks used in Old Korean.