U+D406 "퐆" Hangul Syllable Pop Unicode Character
U+D406 "퐆" Hangul Syllable Pop is a specific character in the modern Hangul syllabary used for writing the Korean language, composed of the initial consonant "ㅍ" (p), the medial vowel "ㅗ" (o), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (p). This character represents a single syllable pronounced roughly like "pop" and is part of the vast Unicode block dedicated to precomposed Hangul syllables, which were encoded to support efficient digital representation of Korean text. While the specific syllable "팝" (Pop) is much more common in modern Korean usage, particularly for the English loanword "pop" in music or culture, "퐆" is a distinct syllable with a theoretical phonetic specification within the Unicode standard, though it is not typically used in natural Korean words or modern vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D406 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Pop |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 퐆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 퐆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x90 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD406 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D406 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud406 |