U+D5EC "헬" Hangul Syllable Hel Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D5EC "헬" Hangul Syllable Hel is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "hel." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the medial vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul), following the standard rules of Hangul syllabic block composition. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet, and it is used in contemporary Korean text for words such as "헬기" meaning "helicopter" or in loanwords like "헬스" meaning "health."

General Properties

Code Point U+D5EC
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Hel
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
"ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 헬
HTML Hex Encoding 헬
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x97 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD5EC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D5EC
C/C++/Java Escape \ud5ec

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