U+D5A5 "향" Hangul Syllable Hyang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
향
U+D5A5 "향" Hangul Syllable Hyang is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "hyang," formed from the initial consonant "ㅎ" (hieut), the medial vowel "ㅑ" (ya), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ieung). This syllable is used in the Korean language to write words such as "향기" (hyanggi), meaning "fragrance" or "scent," as well as "향하다" (hyanghada), meaning "to face" or "to be directed toward." As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it was encoded to support efficient representation of Korean text, allowing a single code point to stand for a complete syllable rather than requiring separate encoding of each jamo component.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D5A5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hyang |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "햐" U+D590 Hangul Syllable Hya "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 향 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 향 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x96 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD5A5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D5A5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud5a5 |