U+D6EF "훯" Hangul Syllable Hweolh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D6EF "훯" Hangul Syllable Hweolh is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes precomposed syllables of the Korean writing system. This specific syllable represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅎ (h), the medial vowel ㅝ (weo), and the final consonant cluster ㄹㅎ (lh), resulting in the sound "hweolh." While not a common syllable in modern Korean vocabulary, it is a valid and defined unit within the Korean Unicode standard, used to express the language's complex syllabic structure in digital text.

General Properties

Code Point U+D6EF
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Hweolh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 훯
HTML Hex Encoding 훯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x9B 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD6EF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D6EF
C/C++/Java Escape \ud6ef

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