U+D5CF "헏" Hangul Syllable Heod Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D5CF "헏" Hangul Syllable Heod is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅎ" (hieut), the medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant "ㄷ" (digeut), thus forming the sound "heod." This character is encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, a standardized range spanning U+AC00 to U+D7AF, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables used for the Korean writing system. While "헏" is a valid and properly formed syllable in the Hangul orthography, it is a relatively rare character used primarily in specialized or uncommon Korean vocabulary rather than in everyday modern text.

General Properties

Code Point U+D5CF
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Heod
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
"ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 헏
HTML Hex Encoding 헏
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x97 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD5CF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D5CF
C/C++/Java Escape \ud5cf

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