U+D5EC "헬" Hangul Syllable Hel Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
헬
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 |