U+D648 "홈" Hangul Syllable Hom Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
홈
U+D648 "홈" Hangul Syllable Hom is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound “hom” as a combination of the initial consonant ㅎ (h) and the vowel ㅗ (o) followed by the final consonant ㅁ (m). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet. In practical usage, the syllable 홈 commonly appears in Korean vocabulary, most notably as the word for “home,” as in a personal residence or the starting screen of a digital device or website.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D648 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hom |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 홈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 홈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x99 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD648 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D648 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud648 |