U+D65C "활" Hangul Syllable Hwal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
활
U+D65C "활" Hangul Syllable Hwal is a precomposed syllable in modern Korean, representing the sound "hwal" and is commonly used in words such as "활동" (activity) or "활주로" (runway). It is formed from the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut) and the vowel ㅘ (wa) with the final consonant ㄹ (rieul), following the standard rules of Hangul syllabification. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, it encodes a single syllable for efficient text processing and display, and it is widely employed in Korean language writing and digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D65C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwal |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 활 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 활 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x99 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD65C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D65C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud65c |