U+D54E "핎" Hangul Syllable Pibs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D54E "핎" Hangul Syllable Pibs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "pibs." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant ㅄ (bieup and siot, pronounced as a double consonant). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible 11,172 syllables of modern Korean in a single, predetermined order for efficient text processing. While not among the most common syllables in everyday Korean use, 핎 is a valid and correctly formed unit that can appear in certain words, names, or historical texts, helping to ensure comprehensive coverage for digital representation of the language.

General Properties

Code Point U+D54E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Pibs
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "피" U+D53C Hangul Syllable Pi
"ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 핎
HTML Hex Encoding 핎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x95 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD54E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D54E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud54e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter