U+D72E "휮" Hangul Syllable Hwij Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
휮
U+D72E "휮" Hangul Syllable Hwij is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic compound of the initial consonant ㅎ (h), the medial vowel ㅟ (wi), and the final consonant ㅈ (j). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes each possible and valid combination of initial, medial, and final jamo into a single codepoint for efficient text processing and display. As a specific, rarely used syllable in contemporary Korean, "휮" may appear in specialized or historical linguistic contexts, but it is not a common part of everyday vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D72E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hwij |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 휮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 휮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9C 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD72E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D72E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud72e |