Insert a Unicode Hangul Syllable Type

A Unicode Hangul syllable type is on of the many Unicode properties that you can insert via the Insert Token button on the Create panel.

Hangul is the native alphabet of the modern Korean language. When written, consonant and vowel symbols (collectively called jamo) are combined into square characters that represent syllables. Unicode has code points that represent the syllables used in modern Korean. For example, 한글 is encoded as two Unicode code points, one for each of the two syllables in the word “Hangul”. It also has code points that represent the consonants and vowels that these syllables are composed of. These code points could be combined to form the same syllables. But they are mainly intended to form other syllables that are not used in modern Korean and for which Unicode does not have precomposed code points.

Every Unicode code point has exactly one value for the Hangul_Syllable_Type property. This property can be used by text rendering engines to properly display Korean text, particularly when it comes to combining jamo into syllables. There are 6 possible values. Precomposed syllables have the value LV_Syllable or LVT_Syllable. Individual jamo have the value Leading_Jamo, Trailing_Jamo, or Vowel_Jamo. All other characters have the value Not_Applicable for the Hangul_Syllable_Type property. Tick “short Hangul syllable type names” if you prefer to abbreviate these values to the letters L, T, and V for the jamo and LV and LVT for the syllables. NA is the abbreviation for Not_Applicable.