Hangul Compatibility Jamo is a Unicode block containing Hangul characters for compatibility with the South Korean national standard KS X 1001 (formerly KS C 5601). Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Hangul Elements.
Unlike the characters in the Hangul Jamo block (U+1100–U+11FF), the characters in this Unicode block do not distinguish initial consonants and final consonants, nor do they have conjoining semantics.
Block
History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block:
Version Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document 1.0.0 U+3131..318E 94 (to be determined) N3172 N3257
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