In this paper, a new methods which decomposes the handwritten-Hangout shape panerns into subpatterns and recognizes the decomposed subpatterns are proposed. the feature vcfices arc detected by searching boundary of the shape pattern and a topolo-gical structure is represented by a bridge links and contact links between the feature vertices. From the tpcological structure, Hangout shape patterns are decomposed into the subpatterns of 44-Korean alphabet. The 학obol and the local attributes are extracted from the subpattrrns and the subpatterns are recognized by matching those attributes with the dictionary. It is assured that this method is more effect and reasonable for deformed handwrioen Hangout shape patterns. Experimental results show that recognition rate is 99(%) and recogni-tion time is also reduced as those using the thinning process.