U+D6CE "훎" Hangul Syllable Hulm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D6CE "훎" Hangul Syllable Hulm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "hulm," where the initial consonant is ㅎ (hieut), the medial vowel is ㅜ (u), and the final consonant is ㄻ (rieul-mieum), a combined double consonant. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes syllables algorithmically based on the standard Korean writing system. As a specific grapheme, it is used in Korean text to denote a distinct syllable in words, contributing to the precise orthographic representation of the language.

General Properties

Code Point U+D6CE
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Hulm
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "후" U+D6C4 Hangul Syllable Hu
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 훎
HTML Hex Encoding 훎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x9B 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD6CE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D6CE
C/C++/Java Escape \ud6ce

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