U+D5C8 "허" Hangul Syllable Heo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
허
U+D5C8 "허" Hangul Syllable Heo is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "heo" as in the English word "her" but with a softer initial 'h'. It is formed from the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut) and the vowel ㅓ (eo), combining within the standard Hangul syllabic block format. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes each possible syllable of the Korean alphabet as a distinct code point to facilitate digital text processing and display. In Korean, "허" appears in common words such as "허리" (heori, meaning waist or lower back) and "허락" (heorak, meaning permission), making it a functionally important component of the language's written communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D5C8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Heo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄒ" U+1112 Hangul Choseong Hieuh "ᅥ" U+1165 Hangul Jungseong Eo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 허 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 허 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x97 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD5C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D5C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud5c8 |