U+D643 "홃" Hangul Syllable Holb Unicode Character
U+D643 "홃" Hangul Syllable Holb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "Holb" (ㅎ for 'h', ㅗ for 'o', and ㄼ for the final consonant cluster 'lb'). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants as single character codes to facilitate text processing and display. While this specific syllable is rare in everyday contemporary Korean vocabulary, it is a valid linguistic construction used in the systematic representation of Korean phonology and may appear in specialized contexts such as historical texts, linguistic studies, or technical transcriptions. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that any valid Hangul syllable, regardless of frequency, can be consistently rendered and processed across digital platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D643 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Holb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 홃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 홃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x99 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD643 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D643 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud643 |