U+D5D0 "헐" Hangul Syllable Heol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
헐
U+D5D0 "헐" Hangul Syllable Heol is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic value "heol." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut) with the vowel ㅓ (eo) and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul). In contemporary Korean internet culture, this syllable has become widely recognized as an expressive interjection often used to convey shock, disbelief, or exasperation, similar to the English exclamation "what the" or "wow." While it has a standard linguistic role in written Korean, its informal online usage has given it a distinct emotional connotation beyond its literal meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D5D0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Heol |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 헐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 헐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x97 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD5D0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D5D0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud5d0 |