U+D709 "휉" Hangul Syllable Hwelt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
휉
U+D709 "휉" Hangul Syllable Hwelt is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "hwelt." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the medial vowel ㅞ (we), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul) into a single, fully composed Hangul block. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks for the Korean alphabet, and it is used in written Korean to transcribe specific lexical items or loanwords.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D709 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwelt |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "훼" U+D6FC Hangul Syllable Hwe "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 휉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 휉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9C 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD709 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D709 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud709 |