U+D5D3 "헓" Hangul Syllable Heolb Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D5D3 "헓" Hangul Syllable Heolb is a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅎ (H),” the medial vowel “ㅓ (eo),” and the final consonant cluster “ㄼ (lb).” As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character was encoded to support the modern and historical Korean language, allowing for the representation of complex syllable blocks that combine multiple jamo characters into a single code point for efficient text processing. While not a commonly used syllable in everyday modern Korean, it illustrates the systematic and modular nature of Hangul, where consonants and vowels are arranged in a predictable grid to form over 11,000 possible syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+D5D3
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Heolb
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
"ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 헓
HTML Hex Encoding 헓
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x97 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD5D3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D5D3
C/C++/Java Escape \ud5d3

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