U+D6E8 "훨" Hangul Syllable Hweol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
훨
U+D6E8 "훨" Hangul Syllable Hweol is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul syllabary block, representing a single syllable of the Korean language. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the medial vowel ㅝ (weo), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul), and is typically romanized as "hweol" in standard Korean transliteration systems. This character is used in Korean text to represent syllables that occur in words such as 훨훨 (hweolhweol), which means to flutter or flap about.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D6E8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hweol |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "훠" U+D6E0 Hangul Syllable Hweo "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 훨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 훨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9B 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD6E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D6E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud6e8 |