What 헌 means
The word around 헌 determines its meaning. On its own, the syllable does not settle a single gloss; before 옷 (“clothes”), it describes something old or worn.
Hangul was announced in 1443; the Hunminjeongeum, a guide to the script published in 1446, explains how it groups letters into syllable blocks. Korean also uses Hanja—Chinese characters in Korean vocabulary: 憲 appears in 헌법, while 獻 appears in 헌금 and 헌혈.
Neutral Korean text; interpret 헌 within its full word.
Do not assume 헌 always means “old.”
What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readingsQuestions people ask
1Why might 헌 appear as separate letters?
Unicode normalization can decompose a Hangul syllable into component jamo. If software does not shape them together, they may appear separately even though they represent the same syllable.
How to type 헌
헌\D5CCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.