U+D684 "횄" Hangul Syllable Hwaess Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter