U+D5CB "헋" Hangul Syllable Heogs Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
헋
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 |