U+D5D9 "헙" Hangul Syllable Heob Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
헙
U+D5D9 "헙" Hangul Syllable Heob 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 "ㅂ" (bieup). It is used as a building block of written Korean in both South and North Korea, where it appears in words and names to denote the sound "heop" or "heob," depending on phonetic context. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character allows for efficient text encoding and display in digital environments, supporting the preservation and transmission of the Korean language across modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D5D9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Heob |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 헙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 헙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x97 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD5D9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D5D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud5d9 |