U+D683 "횃" Hangul Syllable Hwaes Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
횃
U+D683 "횃" Hangul Syllable Hwaes is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅎ" (h), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅅ" (s). It is formed under the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean syllables using the standard initial, medial, and final jamo components. The syllable "횃" itself is a rare form in contemporary Korean, primarily appearing in historical texts, poetic language, or specific dialectal vocabulary, rather than in common modern usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D683 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwaes |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 횃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 횃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9A 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD683 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D683 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud683 |