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휗

hangul syllable hweh

Hangul syllable Hweh

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휗 is a Korean Hangul syllable block. It combines initial ㅎ, vowel ㅞ, and final ㅎ; on its own, it gives a syllable sound but no clear message. Hangul groups sound-bearing letters into blocks like this.

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What 휗 means

It is one syllable block in Korean writing.

Hangul writes Korean with letters grouped into syllable blocks. In 휗, ㅎ is the opening consonant, ㅞ the vowel, and ㅎ the closing consonant. That tells you how the syllable is spelled, but the block alone does not identify a whole word or someone’s intent.

Hangul took shape under King Sejong in 1443; its explanatory work, Hunminjeongeum, was published in 1446. The script let people write Korean without first having to master Classical Chinese writing. 휗 uses Hangul’s design of grouping letters into syllable blocks.

How do I type 휗?

On a Korean IME, enter ㅎ, ㅞ, then final ㅎ.

A Korean input method combines the initial consonant, vowel, and final consonant into one syllable block. Unicode also represents 휗 as 휗: NFC composes modern leading, vowel, and trailing jamo into 휗, while NFD stores those parts separately. Some apps or fonts may not join conjoining jamo correctly.

Technical and orthographic; on its own, it reads as Korean spelling without a clear word-level meaning.

Alone, it gives no reliable cue to the sender’s mood; ask what context they intended.

Who writes 휗

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Questions people ask

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Why did 휗 turn into separate jamo?

Normalization can expose the parts. NFC stores the modern Hangul syllable as one block; NFD stores its initial, vowel, and final jamo separately. A font or app may display those parts apart if it does not support the shaping needed to join conjoining jamo.

How to type or find 휗

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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType D717, then AltX to get 휗.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable hweh”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType d717, then Enter or Space.
HTML
휗
CSS
\D717
Korean input method
On a Korean keyboard layout, enter initial ㅎ, vowel ㅞ, then final ㅎ; the input method combines them into 휗.
Conjoining jamo
The separate-letter sequence is 휗. NFC combines it as 휗; NFD keeps its jamo separate.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
휗
HTML hex
휗
CSS content
content: "\D717";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%ED%9C%97
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols