U+D6FC "훼" Hangul Syllable Hwe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
훼
U+D6FC "훼" Hangul Syllable Hwe is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "hwe" as pronounced in South Korea. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut) with the medial vowel ㅞ (we), which itself is a diphthong derived from the combination of ㅜ (u) and ㅔ (e). This syllable appears in Korean vocabulary, such as in the word 훼손 (hweson), meaning "damage" or "defacement," and is encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block within the Basic Multilingual Plane, supporting standardized digital text representation for Korean language users.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D6FC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwe |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄒ" U+1112 Hangul Choseong Hieuh "ᅰ" U+1170 Hangul Jungseong We |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 훼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 훼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9B 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD6FC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D6FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud6fc |