U+D778 "흸" Hangul Syllable Hyils Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
흸
U+D778 "흸" Hangul Syllable Hyils is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul block, representing a phonetic combination typically transcribed as "hyils" in the Revised Romanization system. It consists of the initial consonant ㅎ (h), the medial vowel ㅢ (yi), and the final consonant ㄹ (l), a structure unique to Korean script where syllabic blocks are encoded as single characters. This particular syllable is relatively rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary but may appear in specialized linguistic contexts, transliterations, or poetic usage, highlighting the modular design of Unicode's Hangul Syllables range, which includes all possible combinations of Korean jamo.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D778 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hyils |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "희" U+D76C Hangul Syllable Hyi "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 흸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 흸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9D 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD778 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D778 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud778 |