U+D669 "황" Hangul Syllable Hwang Unicode Character

U+D669 "황" Hangul Syllable Hwang is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "hwang" as in the English word "hwong" with an aspirated initial. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa, a diphthong of o and a), and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung, which in this final position represents the velar nasal sound "ng"). This character is used extensively in the Korean language for words and names, such as the common surname Hwang, and is encoded in the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode Standard, which systematically assigns code points to all 11,172 possible syllable combinations in Korean.