U+D5E0 "헠" Hangul Syllable Heok Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
헠
U+D5E0 "헠" Hangul Syllable Heok is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the sound "heok." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut) with the medial vowel ㅓ (eo) and the final consonant ㅋ (kieuk), which together create a closed syllable. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, where thousands of such syllables are encoded to allow efficient digital text representation of Korean without requiring separate composition of individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D5E0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Heok |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 헠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 헠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x97 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD5E0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D5E0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud5e0 |