U+D79B "힛" Hangul Syllable His Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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