The KRName IVD Collection

Summary

This page describes the registered KRName IVD collection, and also provides information as required by Section 4.1 of UTS #37, Unicode Ideographic Variation Database.

Registration Details

The following are the registration details:

• Name and address of the registrant: The Unicode Consortium, 611 Gateway Boulevard, Suite 120, South San Francisco, CA 94080 USA
• Name and email address of the representative: Ken Lunde (lunde@unicode.org)
• URL of the website describing the collection: https://www.unicode.org/ivd/krname/
• Identifier for the collection: KRName
• Pattern for the sequence identifiers: KRName_[0-9A-F]{4}_[0-9]{2}

Change History:

1. The name and address of the registrant were originally Adobe Systems Incorporated, 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704 USA, and were changed to The Unicode Consortium, 611 Gateway Boulevard, Suite 120, South San Francisco, CA 94080 USA in 2023.
2. The email address of the representative was originally lunde@adobe.com, and was changed to lunde@unicode.org in 2023.
3. The original URL was https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/krname-ivd-collection/, which was changed to its current URL in the 2025-07-14 version of the IVD.

Description

The purpose of the KRName IVD collection, which was registered in the 2017-12-12 version of the IVD, is to register sequences for a small number of ideograph variants that appear in Korea’s official list of hanja (aka ideographs) for personal names (click here for a hosted version of the PDF file that also includes cover pages and a summary of newly-added hanja). Although based on the 2015 version (web archive), there is a text version prepared by Koichi Yasuoka (click here for a web archive of the now-defunct page), and a formatted and enhanced PDF version prepared by Jaemin Chung that starts on page 4 of document L2/17-173. Many thanks to Koichi Yasuoka, Motoko Yasuoka, and Jaemin Chung for preparing materials that made the KRName IVD collection possible.

Font implementations that support the KRName IVD collection include the Korean language- and Korea region-specific versions of Noto Sans CJK, Noto Serif CJK, Source Han Mono (본모노), Source Han Sans (본고딕), and Source Han Serif (본명조), all of which are open source (SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1). The Adobe-KR-9 Character Collection also includes two OpenType/CFF fonts that support the KRName IVD collection.

Registration History

The following table lists the historical PRIs in chronological order:

PRI	Title	Closing Date	Registered Sequences	Total Registered Sequences	IVD
351	Combined registration of the KRName collection and of sequences in that collection	2017-07-07	36	36	2017-12-12

That is all.