U+D604 "현" Hangul Syllable Hyeon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
현
U+D604 "현" Hangul Syllable Hyeon is a precomposed Korean syllable representing the sound "hyeon" as it appears in the modern Hangul writing system. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun), which together produce a single, fully encoded character within the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard. This character is used extensively in Korean vocabulary, appearing in words such as 현재 (hyeonjae) meaning "present" or "current," and 현대 (hyeondae) meaning "modern," making it a common element in both written and digital Korean text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D604 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hyeon |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 현 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 현 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x98 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD604 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D604 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud604 |