U+D636 "혶" Hangul Syllable Hyep Unicode Character
U+D636 "혶" Hangul Syllable Hyep is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "hyep" formed from the initial consonant ㅎ (h), the medial vowel ㅖ (ye), and the final consonant ㅍ (p). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single code point for efficient text processing. While not as common as more frequent syllables, 혶 appears in modern and historical Korean vocabulary, often in loanwords or specialized terms, and is correctly rendered in any Unicode-compliant font that supports the Hangul script. Its inclusion in the standard ensures that Korean text can be accurately represented and processed across different digital platforms and software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D636 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hyep |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "혜" U+D61C Hangul Syllable Hye "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 혶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 혶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x98 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD636 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D636 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud636 |