U+D616 "혖" Hangul Syllable Hyeoj Unicode Character
U+D616 "혖" Hangul Syllable Hyeoj is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅎ" (h), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant "ㅈ" (j), which together form the sound "hyeoj." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes 11,172 precomposed syllables to facilitate the efficient representation of Korean text in digital systems. While "혖" is a valid and correctly formed Hangul syllable, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, as it does not correspond to a widely recognized word or morpheme in the Korean language. Instead, it serves as a typographic and encoding construct within the Unicode standard, ensuring that all possible consonant vowel consonant combinations in Hangul have a defined code point for consistent text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D616 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hyeoj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 혖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 혖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x98 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD616 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D616 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud616 |