U+D608 "혈" Hangul Syllable Hyeol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
혈
U+D608 "혈" Hangul Syllable Hyeol is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "hyeol," which is formed from the initial consonant ㅎ (h), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㄹ (l). This character is commonly used in Korean vocabulary, appearing in words such as "혈액" (hyeoraek) meaning blood, and "혈관" (hyeolgwan) meaning blood vessel, reflecting its connection to concepts of blood or circulation in both everyday and medical contexts. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode Standard, which encodes each complete Korean syllable as a single character for efficient text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D608 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hyeol |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 혈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 혈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x98 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD608 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D608 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud608 |