KS X 1002 (formerly KS C 5657) is a South Korean
character set
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standard that is established in order to supplement
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 ...
. It consists of a total of 7,649 characters.
Unlike KS X 1001, KS X 1002 is not encoded in any legacy encoding. Even in 1994, it was known as "a standard that no one implemented."
Characters
Characters in KS X 1002 are arranged in a 94×94 grid (as in
ISO/IEC 2022
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), and the two-byte code point of each character is expressed in the ''haeng''-''yeol'' form, which specifies a row (''haeng'' 행) and the position of the character within the row (cell, ''yeol'' 열).
The rows (numbered from 1 to 94) contain characters as follows:
* 01–07:
Latin letters
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with
diacritic
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s (613 characters)
* 08–10:
Greek letters
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with diacritics (273 characters)
* 11–13: miscellaneous symbols (275 characters)
* 14: compound ''jamo'' and
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 without an initial consonant (27 characters)
* 16–36: modern hangul syllables (1,930 characters)
* 37–54: archaic hangul syllables (1,675 characters)
* 55–85:
hanja
Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom.
(, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, wh ...
(2,856 characters)
The rows 15 and 86–94 are unassigned.
Impact on Unicode
KS X 1002 is one of the sources of the
CJK Unified Ideographs
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block in
Unicode
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.
In Unicode 1.1, the characters at
U+3D2E–U+44B7 were from rows 16–36 of KS X 1002.
However, they were deleted and superseded by the new
Hangul Syllables
Hangul Syllables is a Unicode block containing precomposed Hangul syllable blocks for modern Korean. The syllables can be directly mapped by algorithm to sequences of two or three characters in the Hangul Jamo Unicode block:
* one of U+1100–U+ ...
block (U+AC00–U+D7AF) in Unicode 2.0.
See also
*
List of modern Hangul characters in ISO/IEC 2022–compliant national character set standards
References
External links
KS X 1002
{{Hangul Jamo
Encodings of Asian languages
Korean-language computing
Hangul