U+D7A3 "힣" Hangul Syllable Hih Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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