U+D6B9 "횹" Hangul Syllable Hyob Unicode Character
U+D6B9 "횹" Hangul Syllable Hyob is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the phonetic compound "hyob" from the Korean writing system. This character, like all other precomposed Hangul syllables in Unicode, was encoded to facilitate the representation of Korean text by combining a chosen initial consonant, in this case "ㅎ" (hieuh) for the "h" sound, a medial vowel "ㅛ" (yo) for the "yo" sound, and a final consonant "ㅂ" (bieup) for the "b" sound, resulting in a single, self-contained code point. It falls within the Hangul Syllables block, which was designed to include all 11,172 possible syllable combinations of the modern Korean alphabet, allowing for efficient storage and processing of Korean text in digital environments without requiring real-time composition of individual jamo characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D6B9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hyob |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "효" U+D6A8 Hangul Syllable Hyo "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 횹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 횹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9A 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD6B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D6B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud6b9 |