Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul)

ISO 15924: HangFeatural4 total languages
Also known as: Hangŭl, HangeulIANA registered: 16 October 2005

Example text

No example text is available for Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul).

Writing Direction
Direction
Left-to-right
RTL
No
Vertical tradition
East Asian vertical
Source
Unicode CLDR scriptMetadata.txt + app-maintained overrides
Hangul is usually horizontal today but may appear in vertical Korean layout.
Script Properties
Family
Korean
Geographic origin
East Asia
Usage status
Living script
OpenType tag
hang
Hangul, created by King Sejong the Great in 1443 CE. A featural alphabet organized into syllable blocks. Used as the sole official script in South Korea; co-official (with Hanja) in North Korea.

Unicode Blocks

Hangul JamoU+1100Hangul Compatibility JamoU+3130Hangul Jamo Extended-AU+A960Hangul SyllablesU+AC00Hangul Jamo Extended-BU+D7B0

5 Unicode blocks contain Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul) characters. Browse all Unicode blocks →

The lists below count source attestation, not current or official usage. A language can appear under several scripts. Sources, denominators and limitations.

Language-specific characters and typing resources

A script does not have one alphabet shared by every language. Compare these directly sourced CLDR locale repertoires.

Multiple-source attestation (MAIN)
4

Cia-Cia
cia
Jejueo
jje
Korean
kor
Middle Korean (10th-16th cent.)
okm