U+D688 "횈" Hangul Syllable Hwaek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
횈
U+D688 "횈" Hangul Syllable Hwaek is a precomposed syllable used in the Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅎ” (h) and the medial vowel “ㅙ” (wae) with the final consonant “ㅋ” (k). It appears within the Hangul Syllables block, which organizes Korean syllables by their initial, medial, and final components in a systematic order for digital text processing. While this specific syllable is not common in modern everyday Korean vocabulary, its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper display and encoding for historical, linguistic, or typographic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D688 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwaek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 횈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 횈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9A 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD688 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D688 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud688 |