U+D788 "히" Hangul Syllable Hi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
히
U+D788 "히" Hangul Syllable Hi is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "hi." It is formed from the consonant ㅎ (hieut) and the vowel ㅣ (i), and is widely used in the Korean language as a key component in words such as "힘" (him, meaning strength) or as the standalone adverbial particle "히" that can turn certain adjectives into adverbs. This character is encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which includes over 11,000 precomposed syllables to support the full range of Korean text, and it is typically displayed in a square block format to maintain consistent spacing in written Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D788 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hi |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄒ" U+1112 Hangul Choseong Hieuh "ᅵ" U+1175 Hangul Jungseong I |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 히 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 히 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9E 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD788 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D788 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud788 |