U+D39E "펞" Hangul Syllable Penh Unicode Character
U+D39E "펞" Hangul Syllable Penh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "penh" (ㅍ p + ㅔ e + ㄴ n + ㅎ h). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes complete syllables as single characters for efficient text processing, rather than requiring the combination of separate initial, medial, and final jamo. The syllable 펞 is formed by the initial consonant pieup (ㅍ), the medial vowel e (ㅔ), and the final consonants nieun (ㄴ) and hieuh (ㅎ), yielding a sound that does not correspond to a common Korean word but is still valid in the Unicode standard for representing any possible hangul syllable. This character is used in digital text contexts where direct encoding of Korean syllables is needed, though it appears rarely in natural language due to its untypical consonant cluster.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D39E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Penh |
| 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 "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 펞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 펞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x8E 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD39E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D39E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud39e |