GB 12052-89, entitled ''Korean character coded character set for information interchange'' ( zh, s=信息交换用朝鲜文字编码字符集), is a
Korean-language
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character set
Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers. The numerical values that ...
standard established by
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. It consists of a total of 5,979 characters, and has no relationship nor compatibility with
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
's
KS X 1001
KS X 1001, "''Code for Information Interchange (Hangul and Hanja)''", formerly called KS C 5601, is a South Korean coded character set standard to represent hangul and hanja characters on a computer.
KS X 1001 is encoded by the most common leg ...
and
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...
's
KPS 9566
KPS 9566 ("''DPRK Standard Korean Graphic Character Set for Information Interchange''") is a North Korean standard specifying a character encoding for the Chosŏn'gŭl (Hangul) writing system used for the Korean language. The edition of 1997 speci ...
.
Characters
Characters in GB 12052 are arranged in a 94×94 grid (as in
ISO/IEC 2022
ISO/IEC 2022 ''Information technology—Character code structure and extension techniques'', is an ISO/IEC standard (equivalent to the ECMA standard ECMA-35, the ANSI standard ANSI X3.41 and the Japanese Industrial Standard JIS X 0202) in the ...
), and the two-byte code point of each character is expressed in the ''qu''-''wei'' form, which specifies a row (''qu'' 区) and the position of the character within the row (cell, ''wei'' 位).
The rows (numbered from 1 to 94) contain characters as follows:
* 01–09: identical to
GB 2312
is a key official character set of the People's Republic of China, used for Simplified Chinese characters. GB2312 is the registered internet name for EUC-CN, which is its usual encoded form. ''GB'' refers to the Guobiao standards (国家标准 ...
, except 03-04 (￥ in GB 2312, ＄ in GB 12052)
* 16–37: modern
hangul
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The let ...
syllables and ''jamo'', level 1 (2,017 syllables and 51 ''jamo'')
* 38–52: modern hangul syllables, level 2 (1,356 characters)
* 53–72: archaic hangul syllables and ''jamo'' (1,683 syllables and 96 ''jamo''), and 94
Chinese characters
Chinese characters () are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. In addition, they have been adapted to write other East Asian languages, and remain a key component of the Japanese writing system where they are known as ''kanji' ...
The rows 10–15 and 73–94 are unassigned.
Errors
There are some errors in the standard:
* 41-64: 믃 in the fold-out table, 믌 in the standard proper – should be 믃
* 46-65: 틘 in the fold-out table, 퇸 in the standard proper – should be 틘
* 49-37: 뗸 in the fold-out table, 뎬 in the standard proper – should be 뗸
* 51-82: 윹 in the fold-out table, 율 in the standard proper – should be 윹
* 53-67: ᄀᆈ in the fold-out table, missing in the standard proper – should be ᄀᆈ
* 72-88: missing in the fold-out table, 夞 in the standard proper – should be 夞
See also
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Languages of China
There are several hundred languages in China. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on central Mandarin, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages, collectively known as ''Hanyu'' (, 'Han language'), that are spo ...
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List of modern Hangul characters in ISO/IEC 2022–compliant national character set standards
References
External links
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{{Hangul Jamo
Encodings of Asian languages
Korean-language computing
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