U+D5E0 "헠" Hangul Syllable Heok Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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