U+D638 "호" Hangul Syllable Ho Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
호
U+D638 "호" Hangul Syllable Ho is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ho." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut) and the vowel ㅗ (o), combined orthographically into a single block. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains a complete set of all possible modern Korean syllable combinations. In the Korean language, "호" is a common syllable that appears in many words, such as "호수" (hosu, meaning lake) and "호랑이" (horangi, meaning tiger), and it also functions as a surname or a respectful suffix in names.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D638 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ho |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄒ" U+1112 Hangul Choseong Hieuh "ᅩ" U+1169 Hangul Jungseong O |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 호 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 호 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x98 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD638 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D638 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud638 |