U+D39C "펜" Hangul Syllable Pen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
펜
U+D39C "펜" Hangul Syllable Pen is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "pen." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅍ" (p), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㄴ" (n), and its most common meaning in Korean is "pen," as in the writing instrument, though it can also appear in other words or names as a phonetic component. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was included to provide a complete set of precomposed syllables for efficient text processing and display, reflecting the systematic structure of the Korean script used extensively in South and North Korea.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D39C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Pen |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "페" U+D398 Hangul Syllable Pe "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 펜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 펜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x8E 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD39C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D39C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud39c |