U+D3B8 "편" Hangul Syllable Pyeon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
편
U+D3B8 "편" Hangul Syllable Pyeon is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "pyeon" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅍ (pieup), the vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the modern Korean alphabet. The syllable "편" carries a range of meanings depending on context, including common words like "side" or "direction" (편), "comfortable" or "convenient" (편), and "a volume" or "book" (편), making it a frequently used character in written Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D3B8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Pyeon |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "펴" U+D3B4 Hangul Syllable Pyeo "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 편 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 편 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x8E 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD3B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D3B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud3b8 |