U+D79B "힛" Hangul Syllable His Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
힛
U+D79B "힛" Hangul Syllable His is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "his" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅎ (h), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant ㅅ (s). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean jamo characters into single code points for efficient text processing. While not a common word in everyday Korean vocabulary, "힛" can appear in informal or slang contexts, such as onomatopoeic expressions or internet shorthand, often conveying a sense of amusement or cheeky laughter, similar to the English "heh."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D79B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable His |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 힛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 힛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9E 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD79B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D79B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud79b |