U+D78A "힊" Hangul Syllable Higg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D78A "힊" Hangul Syllable Higg is a precomposed Hangul syllable that represents the Korean sound "higg" or "hik," formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅎ" (hieut), the vowel "ㅣ" (i), and the final consonant cluster "ㄱ" (giyeok) doubled as "ㄲ" (ssanggiyeok) to indicate a tense or reinforced pronunciation. This syllable is part of the modern Hangul syllabary, encoded in Unicode to support the complete set of 11,172 possible Hangul syllables used in the Korean language. It would appear in words or contexts where the sound "higg" is required, though it is not among the most frequently used syllables in everyday Korean text.

General Properties

Code Point U+D78A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Higg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "히" U+D788 Hangul Syllable Hi
"ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 힊
HTML Hex Encoding 힊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x9E 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD78A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D78A
C/C++/Java Escape \ud78a

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