U+D756 "흖" Hangul Syllable Heunh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D756 "흖" Hangul Syllable Heunh is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound “heunh,” formed by combining the initial consonant ᄒ (hieut), the medial vowel ᅳ (eu), and the final consonant ᆭ (tieut with a palatalized or complex pronunciation). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was added to standardize and encode the complete set of modern and pre-modern Korean syllable combinations for digital text processing. While “흖” is a valid and correctly formed syllable in the Korean writing system, it is not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary and appears primarily in specialized or historical contexts where precise phonetic encoding is needed.

General Properties

Code Point U+D756
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Heunh
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "흐" U+D750 Hangul Syllable Heu
"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 흖
HTML Hex Encoding 흖
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x9D 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD756
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D756
C/C++/Java Escape \ud756

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