U+D677 "홷" Hangul Syllable Hwaed Unicode Character
U+D677 "홷" Hangul Syllable Hwaed is a precomposed Korean syllable representing the sound "hwae," with the final consonant "d" (denoted by the batchim "ㄷ" in the underlying jamo sequence ㅎ, ㅙ, and ㄷ). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block (AC00–D7AF), which contains all 11,172 logically possible two- or three-jamo combinations in modern Korean, ordered by the traditional collation sequence of initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants. While this syllable is not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic phonetic construction of Hangul, where letters are combined into syllabic blocks rather than written linearly. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that any valid Hangul syllable can be represented digitally, supporting the complete written form of the Korean language from historical texts to modern usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D677 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwaed |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "홰" U+D670 Hangul Syllable Hwae "ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 홷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 홷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x99 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD677 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D677 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud677 |