U+D3F0 "폰" Hangul Syllable Pon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
폰
U+D3F0 "폰" Hangul Syllable Pon is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "pon," formed from the initial consonant ㅍ (p), the vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant ㄴ (n). It is used in modern Korean as a phonetic syllable, most commonly appearing in loanwords and native terms such as "폰" meaning "phone" (short for telephone) or in words like "스마트폰" (smartphone). By encoding this syllable as a single character in the Hangul Syllables block, Unicode simplifies text processing and ensures consistent representation across digital platforms, reflecting the block’s design to include all 11,172 possible modern Korean syllable combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D3F0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Pon |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 폰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 폰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x8F 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD3F0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D3F0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud3f0 |