U+D577 "핷" Hangul Syllable Haegs Unicode Character
U+D577 "핷" Hangul Syllable Haegs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "haegs" formed by combining the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ᆨ (giyeok) which is pronounced as the tense or fortis sound of ㄱ. This syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard, which includes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean letters under the principle of initial, medial, and final jamo. In contemporary Korean, "핷" is a relatively rare character, primarily used in specific vocabulary or as part of historical texts, and it is encoded as a single code point to ensure proper text rendering and storage in digital environments without requiring dynamic composition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D577 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Haegs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "해" U+D574 Hangul Syllable Hae "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 핷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 핷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x95 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD577 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D577 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud577 |