A representation of korean syllable characters defined in Hunminjeongeum

Abstract

Korean script Hunminjeongeum (correct sounds to teach the people), called Hangul, that was distributed in 1446 can generate 39.9 billion syllabic characters by 28 basic alphabets and 5 rules. Current Hangul on computer lost scientific properties and then cannot generate all of 39.9 billion syllables because choosing syllable as a target among encoding objects of syllable, syllabic primitive, and alphabet. In this paper, we propose a coding scheme and a method of generating fonts so as to represent all syllabic characters defined in Hunminjeongeum. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.