U+D556 "핖" Hangul Syllable Pip Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
핖
U+D556 "핖" Hangul Syllable Pip is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the consonant ㅍ (pieup) and the vowel ㅣ (i), followed by the consonant ㅍ (pieup) as a final consonant (batchim). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible syllable blocks formed from the standard jamo letters of the Korean alphabet. This specific syllable, "핖," is not a common word in everyday Korean vocabulary, but it exists as a valid orthographic unit that can be used to represent sounds in loanwords or phonetic transcriptions. Uppercase or lowercase distinctions do not apply, as Hangul syllables are inherently neutrally cased.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D556 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Pip |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 핖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 핖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x95 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD556 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D556 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud556 |