Unicode block of Hangeul syllable characters

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The unicode block Hangeul syllables (English Hangul Syllables, U + AC00 to U + D7AF) contains all syllables of the Korean script called Hangeul . In South Korea , apart from hangeul , Chinese characters called hanja are also used less frequently .

In contrast to 'real' syllabary scripts such as the Japanese Kana , the Korean characters can be broken down further into individual characters - called Jamo - which each denote individual sounds, i.e. ultimately letters . Today 51 Jamo are still used in Korean. However, these letters are not written linearly one behind the other, but the letters of a syllable are written according to relatively complex rules in such a way that each syllable forms a square and thus resembles Chinese characters. As a large font is required for Korean due to the number of finished syllable characters in this block , the single letters are also available in the Hangeul-Jamo Unicode block . When using them, however, the computer must have an algorithm that correctly combines the individual characters to form a syllable square.

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All characters have the general category "other letters (including syllables and ideograms)" and the bidirectional class "left to right". They are named according to a uniform system:

Official name HANGUL SYLLABLE ????
meaning Hangeul syllables ????

Here is ???? for a specific sequence of letters. The characters and the corresponding letter sequences are divided into:

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