U+D5FA "헺" Hangul Syllable Hej Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
헺
U+D5FA "헺" Hangul Syllable Hej is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅎ" (hieuh), the vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㅈ" (jieut). This specific syllable, pronounced approximately as "hej" or "het," represents a distinct phonetic and lexical unit used in the Korean language, though it is relatively uncommon in everyday vocabulary. As part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), it was encoded in Unicode 2.0 to support the efficient representation of all 11,172 possible syllable combinations in Korean texts, enabling accurate digital rendering and linguistic analysis.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D5FA |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Hej |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 헺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 헺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x97 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD5FA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D5FA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud5fa |