U+D657 "홗" Hangul Syllable Hwags Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
홗
U+D657 "홗" Hangul Syllable Hwags is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul syllabary representing the Korean sound "hwags," which is composed of the initial consonant ㅎ (h), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant cluster ㄳ (gs). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, spanning from U+AC00 to U+D7AF, and it is used in written Korean to form words that require this specific syllabic sound. As a precomposed form, it allows for efficient text processing and display in digital environments, contributing to the comprehensive encoding of the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D657 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwags |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "화" U+D654 Hangul Syllable Hwa "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 홗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 홗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x99 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD657 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D657 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud657 |