U+D78A "힊" Hangul Syllable Higg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
힊
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 |