U+D729 "휩" Hangul Syllable Hwib Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
휩
U+D729 "휩" Hangul Syllable Hwib is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "hwib," formed from the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the medial vowel ㅟ (wi), and the final consonant ㅂ (bieup). Primarily used in the modern Korean writing system, this syllable appears in native Korean or Sino-Korean vocabulary, such as in the verb 휩쓸다 (hwipsseulda) meaning "to sweep" or "to engulf," and it functions as a phonetic unit in the standard Unicode Hangul Syllables block which organizes syllables algorithmically for efficient text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D729 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwib |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 휩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 휩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9C 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD729 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D729 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud729 |