U+D78B "힋" Hangul Syllable Higs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D78B "힋" Hangul Syllable Higs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "higs" through the combination of the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant cluster ㄳ (giyeok-siot). This character is part of the larger Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes thousands of precomposed Korean syllables for efficient text representation. While not among the most frequently used syllables in contemporary Korean, it would appear in specific lexical contexts or historical texts where the sound "higs" is articulated, demonstrating the systematic and combinatorial nature of the Korean writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+D78B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Higs
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
"ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 힋
HTML Hex Encoding 힋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x9E 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD78B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D78B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud78b

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