U+D669 "황" Hangul Syllable Hwang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
황
U+D669 "황" Hangul Syllable Hwang is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "hwang" as in the English word "hwong" with an aspirated initial. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa, a diphthong of o and a), and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung, which in this final position represents the velar nasal sound "ng"). This character is used extensively in the Korean language for words and names, such as the common surname Hwang, and is encoded in the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode Standard, which systematically assigns code points to all 11,172 possible syllable combinations in Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D669 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwang |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 황 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 황 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x99 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD669 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D669 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud669 |