U+D438 "퐸" Hangul Syllable Pwaess Unicode Character
U+D438 "퐸" Hangul Syllable Pwaess is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "pwaess." It is formed from the initial consonant ᄑ (p), the medial vowel ᅪ (wa), and the final consonant ᆻ (ss), combining these three jamo elements into a single, compact character block. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which encodes all possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet based on the standard order of initial, medial, and final letters. As with other precomposed Hangul syllables, U+D438 enables efficient text processing and display in digital environments, supporting the accurate representation of the Korean language in computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D438 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Pwaess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 퐸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 퐸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x90 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD438 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D438 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud438 |