U+D738 "휸" Hangul Syllable Hyun Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter