U+D42A "퐪" Hangul Syllable Pwaenh Unicode Character
U+D42A "퐪" Hangul Syllable Pwaenh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "p" (ㅍ), the medial vowel "wae" (ㅙ), and the final consonant "nh" (ㄶ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes syllabic blocks that follow a systematic arrangement based on the Korean alphabet's jamo components. As a precomposed form, it simplifies text processing and display by providing a single codepoint for what would otherwise require combination of separate jamo characters. The syllable itself is used in writing Korean, though it is relatively rare compared to more common Hangul syllables, as it corresponds to a specific morphophonological pattern in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D42A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Pwaenh |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "퐤" U+D424 Hangul Syllable Pwae "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 퐪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 퐪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x90 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD42A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D42A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud42a |