U+D7A3 "힣" Hangul Syllable Hih Unicode Character
U+D7A3 "힣" Hangul Syllable Hih is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅎ" (hieut), the medial vowel "ㅣ" (i), and the final consonant "ㅎ" (hieut) to form the sound "hih." As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is one of thousands of syllable blocks that were encoded to allow efficient digital representation of Korean text, following the systematic arrangement of initial, medial, and final jamo components. While the syllable "힣" is rarely used in everyday Korean vocabulary, it exists primarily as a valid, algorithmically generated form within the Hangul writing system, demonstrating the comprehensive coverage of the Unicode standard for the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D7A3 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hih |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 힣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 힣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x9E 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD7A3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D7A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud7a3 |