U+D5EF "헯" Hangul Syllable Helb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
헯
U+D5EF "헯" Hangul Syllable Helb is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the phonetic block "helb". It is formed by the initial consonant "ㅎ" (h), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant cluster "ㄹㅂ" (lb), which together create a single, indivisible syllable unit. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was encoded to provide a complete set of all possible valid syllables in the Korean language, enabling efficient text processing and display. While "헯" is a legitimate orthographic form, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, as it appears only in limited or specialized linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D5EF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Helb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 헯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 헯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x97 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD5EF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D5EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud5ef |