U+D720 "휠" Hangul Syllable Hwil Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
휠
U+D720 "휠" Hangul Syllable Hwil is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "hwil" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the medial vowel ㅟ (wi), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable blocks in the Korean alphabet according to the Unicode Standard. In everyday Korean usage, this syllable appears in words such as "휠체어" (hwilcheeo) meaning wheelchair, and "휠" (hwil) can also refer to a wheel or a rotating component in mechanical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D720 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwil |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "휘" U+D718 Hangul Syllable Hwi "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 휠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 휠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9C 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD720 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D720 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud720 |