U+D79C "힜" Hangul Syllable Hiss Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
힜
U+D79C "힜" Hangul Syllable Hiss is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅎ” (h), the vowel “ㅣ” (i), and the final consonant “ㅆ” (ss), which together produce the sound "hiss." It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean jamo characters in a single code point for efficient text processing. This specific syllable is rarely used in everyday Korean vocabulary, as the final double consonant “ㅆ” is uncommon in native words, but it demonstrates the systematic and modular nature of the Hangul writing system, where individual letters are combined to form complete syllabic blocks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D79C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hiss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 힜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 힜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9E 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD79C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D79C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud79c |