U+D63C "혼" Hangul Syllable Hon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
혼
U+D63C "혼" Hangul Syllable Hon is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system representing the sound "hon," formed by combining the initial consonant ㅎ (h), the vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant ㄴ (n). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllables of the Korean alphabet in a single block for efficient text processing. In the Korean language, "혼" can appear in words such as 혼자 (honja, meaning "alone") or 혼란 (honran, meaning "confusion"), and it carries no inherent meaning by itself but gains significance within the context of larger lexical units.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D63C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hon |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "호" U+D638 Hangul Syllable Ho "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 혼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 혼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x98 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD63C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D63C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud63c |