U+D738 "휸" Hangul Syllable Hyun Unicode Character
U+D738 "휸" Hangul Syllable Hyun is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "hyun," formed from the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the medial vowel ㅠ (yu), and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean alphabetic jamo into single, fully formed syllable characters for efficient text processing. This particular syllable is used in modern Korean writing to represent words or morphemes containing the "hyun" sound, such as in the word 휴면 (hyumyeon) meaning "hibernation," and follows the standard East Asian script rendering properties for vertical and horizontal text alignment. The character is assigned a decimal code point of 55096 and was introduced to support complete coverage of the Korean writing system in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D738 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hyun |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 휸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 휸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9C 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD738 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D738 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud738 |