U+D727 "휧" Hangul Syllable Hwilh Unicode Character
U+D727 "휧" Hangul Syllable Hwilh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed from the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the medial vowel ㅟ (wi), and the final consonant ㅀ (rieul-hieut, representing an "lh" sound). This syllable, pronounced approximately as "hwil" with a soft "lh" ending, is part of the extensive Hangul Syllables block (AC00–D7AF), which encodes all possible combinations of Korean lead vowels and trailing consonants according to the standard syllabic structure. While not a frequently used word in everyday Korean, it appears in specific vocabulary or transliterations, and its existence underscores the systematic and uniform treatment of Korean phonology in Unicode, where each valid syllable is assigned a unique code point for consistent digital representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D727 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwilh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 휧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 휧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9C 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD727 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D727 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud727 |