U+D565 "핥" Hangul Syllable Halt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
핥
U+D565 "핥" Hangul Syllable Halt is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "halt" as a single character block. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the central vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant cluster ㄹㅌ (rieul and tieut). This syllable is used in the Korean language as part of larger words and compounds, typically appearing in written text to denote a specific phonetic unit rather than carrying an independent meaning on its own. As a member of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it exists to facilitate digital text processing and display for Korean characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D565 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Halt |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "하" U+D558 Hangul Syllable Ha "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 핥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 핥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x95 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD565 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D565 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud565 |