U+D601 "혁" Hangul Syllable Hyeog Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
혁
U+D601 "혁" Hangul Syllable Hyeog is a precomposed syllable from the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "hyeok." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅎ" (hieut), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok), which together create a block that corresponds to a single syllable in Korean phonology. This character is part of the extensive Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet for use in digital text. In the Korean language, "혁" appears in various words and names, such as "혁명" (hyeokmyeong) meaning "revolution," and it is commonly used in proper nouns, including given names and place names.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D601 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hyeog |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "혀" U+D600 Hangul Syllable Hyeo "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 혁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 혁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x98 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD601 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D601 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud601 |