U+D679 "홹" Hangul Syllable Hwaelg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
홹
U+D679 "홹" Hangul Syllable Hwaelg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the medial vowel ㅙ (wae), and the final consonant ㄺ (rieul-giyeok), which is a double final consonant cluster. This character represents the sound "hwaelk," though it is extremely rare or even obsolete in standard modern Korean vocabulary, as words containing this specific syllable are not commonly found in contemporary usage. It is encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which systematically assigns precomposed forms to all 11,172 possible syllables in the Korean alphabet based on a mathematical ordering of their constituent jamo (letters).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D679 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwaelg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 홹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 홹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x99 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD679 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D679 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud679 |