U+D678 "홸" Hangul Syllable Hwael Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
홸
U+D678 "홸" Hangul Syllable Hwael is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language. It represents the sound "hwae" (or "hwael") and is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅎ" (hieut) with the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae) and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo letters into single code points for efficient text processing. In practical use, it appears in Korean words and phrases, though it is relatively uncommon compared to more frequent syllables in everyday vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D678 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwael |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 홸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 홸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x99 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD678 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D678 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud678 |