U+D5DB "헛" Hangul Syllable Heos Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
헛
U+D5DB "헛" Hangul Syllable Heos is a single precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic value "heos." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the medial vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㅅ (siot), and is used in standard Korean vocabulary to denote meanings related to emptiness, falsehood, or futility, as in words like 헛수고 (unnecessary effort) or 헛말 (false statement). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations from the Korean alphabet, and it is widely supported in digital text for writing the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D5DB |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Heos |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 헛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 헛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x97 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD5DB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D5DB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud5db |