U+D5C9 "헉" Hangul Syllable Heog Unicode Character
U+D5C9 "헉" Hangul Syllable Heog is a precomposed syllable within the Hangul script, representing the sound "heok" in the modern Korean language. It is formed from the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok), and it appears in the Unicode block for Hangul syllables, which were encoded to facilitate efficient text processing for Korean. While not notably frequent in everyday vocabulary, the syllable "헉" can be found in various Korean words, often carrying a sense of sudden surprise or a gasp, as in the common exclamation "헉" used to express shock or dismay. This character, like all precomposed Hangul syllables, allows for straightforward representation of Korean text in digital environments without requiring complex rendering of individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D5C9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Heog |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "허" U+D5C8 Hangul Syllable Heo "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 헉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 헉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x97 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD5C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D5C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud5c9 |