U+D737 "휷" Hangul Syllable Hyugs Unicode Character
U+D737 "휷" Hangul Syllable Hyugs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅎ (h), the medial vowel ㅠ (yu), and the final consonant ㄳ (gs). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character was encoded to facilitate the efficient digital representation of Korean text, allowing the syllable to be stored as a single code point rather than as a sequence of individual jamo components. While it is a valid and correctly formed syllable in the Korean orthography, it is a relatively rare or obscure character in everyday use, as the syllable "hyugs" does not correspond to a common Korean word in standard vocabulary. Nonetheless, its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that any text requiring this specific syllable can be faithfully rendered and processed across different platforms and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D737 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hyugs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "휴" U+D734 Hangul Syllable Hyu "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 휷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 휷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9C 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD737 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D737 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud737 |