U+314E "ㅎ" Hangul Letter Hieuh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅎ
U+314E "ㅎ" Hangul Letter Hieuh is a consonant representing the sound "h" in the Korean alphabet, Hangul, where it is the final and 14th basic consonant. As a letter, it functions both as an initial consonant in syllables like 하 (ha) and as a final consonant, or batchim, in syllables such as 학 (hak), where its pronunciation can change or become silent depending on the following sound. Hieuh is written with a single curved horizontal line and a vertical stroke, making it one of the simpler characters in the Hangul script, and it plays a key role in Korean writing, appearing in common words like 한국 (Hanguk, meaning Korea).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+314E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Hieuh |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄒ" U+1112 Hangul Choseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x314E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000314E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u314e |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ᄒ" U+1112 Hangul Choseong Hieuh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᄒ" U+1112 Hangul Choseong Hieuh |
| Script | Hangul |
| Script Extensions | Hangul |
| 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 | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |