U+D44E "푎" Hangul Syllable Poelp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
푎
U+D44E "푎" Hangul Syllable Poelp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the combination of the initial consonant “ㅍ” (p), the medial vowel “ㅚ” (oe), and the final consonant “ㄹㅂ” (lb), which together form the sound “poelp.” It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet, and is used primarily in text processing and display for the Korean language. This specific syllable, while grammatically valid, is rare in practical vocabulary, as it does not correspond to a common word in contemporary Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D44E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Poelp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 푎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 푎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x91 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD44E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D44E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud44e |