U+D5D8 "험" Hangul Syllable Heom Unicode Character

U+D5D8 "험" Hangul Syllable Heom is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "heom", constructed from the initial consonant ㅎ (hieut), the medial vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which contains all 11,172 possible two or three letter syllable combinations in the modern Korean alphabet. In the Unicode standard, such precomposed forms simplify text processing by encoding each syllable as a single code point, rather than requiring a sequence of individual jamo components. The syllable "험" carries no inherent meaning on its own but commonly appears in Korean words, for example in "험하다" (heomhada), meaning "rough" or "dangerous".