U+D56D "항" Hangul Syllable Hang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
항
U+D56D "항" Hangul Syllable Hang is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅎ" (hieut) with the vowel "ㅏ" (a) and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ieung) to produce the sound "hang." It is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which includes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations for the Korean alphabet, and it is widely used in the Korean language to represent words or grammatical elements, such as in the common adverb "항상" (hangsang) meaning "always."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D56D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hang |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 항 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 항 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x95 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD56D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D56D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud56d |