Hangul

Script Details

Hangul

A collection of poems by Jeong Cheol in Hangul

By Jeong Cheol - [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30271909

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Data

ISO 15924 Hang 286
Type Featural
Family Koreanic
Direction Can be horizontally from LtR or RtL, or vertically TtB and RtL
Diacritics Yes
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 24
Inventor King Sejong (1419-1450)
Earliest Location Korea
Earliest Date 1446 CE
Latest Date Present
Ancestry
    • Hangul

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1999 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 251-280 Blackwell Publishing
King, Ross 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Korean, 217-229 Oxford University Press