U+D77D "흽" Hangul Syllable Hyib Unicode Character
U+D77D "흽" Hangul Syllable Hyib is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language, representing the phonetic value "hyib." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants in the Korean alphabet. However, unlike commonly used Hangul syllables such as "한" (han) or "글" (geul), "흽" is rarely encountered in everyday Korean vocabulary and is primarily included in the Unicode standard to ensure complete coverage of theoretical syllable forms, serving purposes of linguistic study, historical text encoding, or specialized technical transcription rather than practical modern usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D77D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hyib |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 흽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 흽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9D 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD77D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D77D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud77d |