U+D684 "횄" Hangul Syllable Hwaess Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
횄
U+D684 "횄" Hangul Syllable Hwaess is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic value "hwaess," which is the sound for the initial consonant ㅎ (h), the medial vowel ㅙ (wae), and the final consonant ㅆ (ss). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes combinations of Korean letters as single code points for efficient text processing and display. The syllable 횄 is not commonly used in contemporary Korean vocabulary, as it appears in archaic or specialized contexts, but it demonstrates the systematic and modular nature of Hangul, where individual jamo (letters) are combined into syllabic blocks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D684 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwaess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 횄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 횄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9A 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD684 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D684 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud684 |