U+D799 "힙" Hangul Syllable Hib Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
힙
U+D799 "힙" Hangul Syllable Hib is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "hib," formed from the initial consonant ㅎ (h), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant ㅂ (b). In Korean vocabulary, this syllable most commonly appears as the first element in the word "힙합" (hiphap), meaning "hip hop," a genre of music and culture, though it can also form other words or be part of compound terms. As a distinct code point in Unicode, it enables consistent digital text representation for this specific Hangul syllable.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D799 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hib |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 힙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 힙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9E 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD799 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D799 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud799 |