U+D5FA "헺" Hangul Syllable Hej Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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