U+D5EB "헫" Hangul Syllable Hed Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D5EB "헫" Hangul Syllable Hed is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "hed." This character is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅎ" (h), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㄷ" (d), which are stacked and arranged according to standard Hangul orthographic principles. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 such precomposed syllables, enabling efficient text representation and rendering for the Korean language. While not a commonly used term in everyday Korean vocabulary, "헫" demonstrates the systematic and modular nature of Hangul's script, where individual letters combine to form distinct syllabic blocks.

General Properties

Code Point U+D5EB
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Hed
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "헤" U+D5E4 Hangul Syllable He
"ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 헫
HTML Hex Encoding 헫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x97 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD5EB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D5EB
C/C++/Java Escape \ud5eb

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