U+D66D "홭" Hangul Syllable Hwat Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
홭
U+D66D "홭" Hangul Syllable Hwat is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, formed from the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㅌ (tieut). As a single code point in the Unicode Standard, it represents the sound "hwat" and is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet. This character is used to write words in Korean, particularly in South and North Korea, where it may appear in vocabulary or proper nouns that require the pronunciation of "hwat," such as in certain verb stems or loanword adaptations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D66D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwat |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 홭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 홭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x99 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD66D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D66D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud66d |