U+D696 "횖" Hangul Syllable Hoelm Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
횖
U+D696 "횖" Hangul Syllable Hoelm is a compound syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅎ" (hieut), the medial vowel "ㅚ" (oe), and the final consonant "ㄻ" (rieul-mieum), which together create the phonetic value "hoelm." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible precomposed syllables of the Korean alphabet to allow efficient text rendering. As a specific and relatively rare syllable, it does not commonly appear in everyday Korean vocabulary but is fully recognized in the Unicode standard to ensure comprehensive coverage of the language’s orthographic possibilities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D696 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hoelm |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "회" U+D68C Hangul Syllable Hoe "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 횖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 횖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9A 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD696 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D696 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud696 |