U+D5E3 "헣" Hangul Syllable Heoh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D5E3 "헣" Hangul Syllable Heoh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "heoh." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut) with the vowel ㅓ (eo) and the final consonant ㅎ (hieut), making it a closed syllable. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is used in written Korean, though it is relatively uncommon in everyday vocabulary and appears more in transliterations or specialized linguistic contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+D5E3
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Heoh
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
"ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 헣
HTML Hex Encoding 헣
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x97 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD5E3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D5E3
C/C++/Java Escape \ud5e3

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