Korean jamo splitter – chosung extractor

This Korean jamo splitter (Hangul jamo separator, chosung extractor, initial consonant finder) breaks Hangul syllables into their building blocks.

Paste or type Korean text and choose between two results: initial consonants only, so 안녕하세요 becomes ㅇㄴㅎㅅㅇ, or full jamo separation, so 한 becomes ㅎㅏㄴ. How does a Hangul syllable work?

Each syllable block has an initial consonant (chosung), a vowel (jungsung) and sometimes a final consonant (jongsung).

Unicode stores all 11,172 modern syllables in one ordered range, so a program can compute the three parts from the character code. This tool does exactly that. What is chosung search used for?

Initial consonants are used in word guessing games, quiz hints, name lists, contact search and file naming, for example ㅂㅅ for 부산. What does the extra option do?

Some finals and vowels are double, like the ㄺ in 닭 or the ㅘ in 과. When you tick the option, they are split further into ㄹㄱ and ㅗㅏ. Leave it off if you want them kept as single compatibility jamo.

Spaces, numbers, English letters and symbols are left unchanged, and lone jamo you typed stay as they are. The count tells you how many Hangul syllables were processed.

Note that the output uses standalone jamo characters, which look the same as typed letters but are not the same characters as syllables, so they will not match a normal text search.

To write Hangul with an English keyboard use the Korean English keyboard converter, and to count characters use the resume character counter.

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