U+D718 "휘" Hangul Syllable Hwi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
휘
U+D718 "휘" Hangul Syllable Hwi is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "hwi." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut) with the medial vowel ㅟ (wi), which itself is a combination of the vowels ㅜ (u) and ㅣ (i). This syllable appears commonly in Korean vocabulary, such as in words like 휘파람 (hwiparam, meaning "whistle") or 휘다 (hwida, meaning "to bend"), and is encoded as a single character in the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode Standard for efficient text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D718 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwi |
| 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 "ᅱ" U+1171 Hangul Jungseong Wi |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 휘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 휘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9C 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD718 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D718 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud718 |