U+D5CB "헋" Hangul Syllable Heogs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D5CB "헋" Hangul Syllable Heogs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅎ" (hieut), the medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant "ㄳ" (gs). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded as a single character to standardize digital text processing and display, though its use is limited to specific, often archaic or rare lexical contexts within the Korean language. This syllable exemplifies how Unicode supports the complex syllabic structure of Hangul, allowing for accurate representation of over 11,000 possible syllables without requiring separate encoding of their individual jamo components.

General Properties

Code Point U+D5CB
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Heogs
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
"ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 헋
HTML Hex Encoding 헋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x97 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD5CB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D5CB
C/C++/Java Escape \ud5cb

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
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 Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter