What 헥 means
헥헥 is the Korean panting sound. A lone 헥 has an older, separate use.
A 2018 Korean literary passage uses 헥헥 for a panting dog, while a 2024 health headline uses it for human breathlessness. In a 15th–16th-century Buddhist text, a teacher shouts lone 헥 to wake disciples; a 1993 language-history study describes that interjection as obsolete in modern Korean. The shared spelling does not establish direct continuity.
Combination ideas
1A Korean sound for panting or breathlessness.
Questions people ask
1Why does 헥 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 헥
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType D5E5, then Alt+X to get 헥.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable heg”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType d5e5, then Enter or Space.
HTML
헥CSS
\D5E5Korean keyboard
Type 헥 on a Korean keyboard by entering ㅎ, ㅔ, then ㄱ in that order; the input method combines them into one Hangul syllable.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
헥
HTML hex
헥
CSS content
content: "\D5E5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%ED%97%A5
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.