What 헝 means
Switch to Korean Hangul input.
Enter ㅎ, ㅓ, then ㅇ; the Korean IME, or input method, joins them into 헝 as you type.
What does 헝 mean by itself?
By itself, 헝 is one syllable, not a full translation.
Read it as part of a Korean word or the surrounding message; one block alone does not settle the sender's meaning.
Why do Hangul letters form blocks?
Hangul packs consonants and vowels into square syllable blocks.
The key dates are 1443 and 1446: the alphabet was created in the first year, and its explanatory book was published in the second. Hangul gave Korean a writing system whose letters represent speech sounds and combine into syllables.
헝 is one precomposed block; its equivalent sequence is ᄒ ᅥ ᆼ, three linked Hangul letters. Unicode normalization can turn that sequence into 헝. As of 2026, support for shaping conjoining letters varies by app, so an unnormalized sequence may appear as separate parts.
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Don't confuse it with
2헝 This spells the same syllable as three linked Hangul letters. Text software can combine them during normalization; without suitable font support, they may appear apart.
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1Why does 헝 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.
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헝\D5DDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.