U+D44A "푊" Hangul Syllable Poelm Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
푊
U+D44A "푊" Hangul Syllable Poelm is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "poelm," which is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅍ (p), the medial vowel ㅚ (oe), and the final consonant ㄻ (lm) in a single encoded character. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encompasses all modern and many historical syllables of the Korean writing system, allowing for efficient text representation without requiring dynamic composition or decomposition. In written Korean, such syllables are used in standard orthography for words that include the phonetic combination, contributing to the language's systematic and logical writing structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D44A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Poelm |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "푀" U+D440 Hangul Syllable Poe "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 푊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 푊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x91 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD44A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D44A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud44a |