U+D7A0 "힠" Hangul Syllable Hik Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D7A0 "힠" Hangul Syllable Hik is a precomposed syllable from the Hangul script used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "hik." This character is formed from the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the medial vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant ᜔ (namely, the archaic letter  , but technically here it is the final consonant ᇂ, which is a placeholder for the aspirated "k" sound in the standard modern Hangul system; however, this specific syllable "힠" is actually a modern standard syllable formed with the final consonant 'ㅋ' (kieuk), yielding the reading "hik." It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all logically possible combinations of initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants from the Korean alphabet, and it can be input via Korean keyboard layouts or by combining individual jamo characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+D7A0
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Hik
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
"ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 힠
HTML Hex Encoding 힠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x9E 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD7A0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D7A0
C/C++/Java Escape \ud7a0

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