U+D72D "휭" Hangul Syllable Hwing Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
휭
U+D72D "휭" Hangul Syllable Hwing is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅎ” (h), the medial vowel “ㅟ” (wi), and the final consonant “ㅇ” (ng), resulting in the sound “hwing.” This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which systematically encodes all possible syllable blocks formed by combining Korean consonants and vowels, allowing for efficient text representation and rendering in digital environments. The syllable “휭” is used in written Korean for specific lexical purposes, though it is relatively rare in everyday vocabulary compared to more common syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D72D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwing |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 휭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 휭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9C 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD72D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D72D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud72d |