U+D759 "흙" Hangul Syllable Heulg Unicode Character
U+D759 "흙" Hangul Syllable Heulg is the specific encoded representation for the Korean syllable pronounced roughly as "heulg," like the English word "hulk" but with a softer 'l' sound. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which systematically encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants in the modern Korean alphabet. The syllable "흙" itself is composed of the initial consonant ㅎ, the medial vowel ㅡ, and the final consonant cluster ㄺ. In the Korean language, this character holds practical and cultural significance as it is the Korean word for "soil" or "dirt," appearing commonly in agricultural, environmental, and everyday contexts such as in the well known idiomatic expression "흙에서 나와 흙으로 돌아간다," meaning "from the earth we come and to the earth we return."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D759 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Heulg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 흙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 흙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9D 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD759 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D759 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud759 |