U+D716 "휖" Hangul Syllable Hwep Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
휖
U+D716 "휖" Hangul Syllable Hwep is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅎ" (hieut), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (bieup). This syllable is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, as it appears in relatively rare or specialized linguistic contexts, such as in certain transliterations, archaic terms, or technical transcriptions of foreign sounds. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that the full range of theoretically possible Hangul syllables, built from the 11,172 possible combinations of initial, medial, and final jamo, is digitally represented for accurate text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D716 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwep |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 휖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 휖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9C 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD716 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D716 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud716 |