U+D38A "펊" Hangul Syllable Peolp Unicode Character
U+D38A "펊" Hangul Syllable Peolp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "peolp." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅍ (pieup), the medial vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㄼ (rieul-bieup), which together create a single, indivisible syllable block. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character was added to support the efficient encoding of the Korean writing system, allowing for the direct representation of syllables without requiring separate combining sequences. Despite being a valid and codified syllable, "펊" is exceedingly rare in everyday Korean vocabulary, serving primarily as a typographic or technical placeholder rather than appearing in common words or texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D38A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Peolp |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "퍼" U+D37C Hangul Syllable Peo "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 펊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 펊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x8E 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD38A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D38A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud38a |