U+D3EF "폯" Hangul Syllable Pogs Unicode Character
U+D3EF "폯" Hangul Syllable Pogs is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "p" (ㅍ), the vowel "o" (ㅗ), and the final consonant "gs" (ㄳ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was introduced to efficiently encode the thousands of possible syllable blocks that form written Korean. While "폯" is a valid and standard syllable according to Hangul orthography, it is a relatively rare character and not commonly used in modern Korean vocabulary or everyday text. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that all theoretically possible Hangul syllables can be digitally represented and preserved for linguistic accuracy and historical documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D3EF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Pogs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "포" U+D3EC Hangul Syllable Po "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 폯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 폯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x8F 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD3EF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D3EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud3ef |