Hangul syllable Henh

On a Korean two-set keyboard, type ㅎ, ㅔ, ㄴ, then ㅎ. A Korean IME (input method editor) combines ㄴ + ㅎ into the final consonant cluster ㄶ and forms 헪.

In software that accepts Unicode escapes, \uD5EA denotes 헪. Unicode normalization chooses a consistent form: NFD (decomposed form) writes ᄒ + ᅦ + ᆭ as separate letters; NFC (composed form) joins them as 헪. Normalize text before comparing it.

What does 헪 mean?

It has no standalone word meaning: 헪 is a Hangul syllable block. Hangul builds these blocks from jamo, its consonant and vowel letters: ᄒ starts this one, ᅦ is its vowel, and ᆭ is its final consonant cluster. Unicode’s name “Henh” labels the encoded sequence; it is not a Korean word or a translation.

Hangul was created under King Sejong in 1443; an explanatory book, the Hunminjeongeum Haeryebon, was published in 1446. Hangul was designed as an easier way to write Korean, at a time when formal writing relied on Chinese characters and often differed from spoken Korean. During the Joseon period (1392–1897), palace women and commoners also used Hangul in everyday writing, though it was not adopted for official state documents.

Older Korean writing also used archaic jamo combinations outside the modern block set; Unicode represents many of them as sequences rather than single precomposed blocks.