U+D331 "팱" Hangul Syllable Paelg Unicode Character
U+D331 "팱" Hangul Syllable Paelg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅍ (pieup, representing a /p/ sound), the medial vowel ㅐ (ae, representing a mid front unrounded vowel /ɛ/), and the final consonant ㄹㄱ (rieul-giyeok, a compound final representing the cluster /lk/). This specific syllable is not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary but is a valid and encoded part of the Hangul Syllables block (AC00-D7AF) in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables covering all possible combinations of initial, medial, and final jamo. Its inclusion ensures that all systematic combinations of Korean phonemes are representable in digital text, supporting accurate rendering and search for rare or archaic words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D331 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Paelg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "패" U+D328 Hangul Syllable Pae "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 팱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 팱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x8C 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD331 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D331 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud331 |