U+D478 "푸" Hangul Syllable Pu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
푸
U+D478 "푸" Hangul Syllable Pu is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul alphabet, representing the phonetic sound "pu" as used in the Korean language. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅍ (p) with the vowel ㅜ (u), and its inclusion in Unicode allows for the accurate representation of this specific syllable in digital text, supporting proper rendering across various platforms and applications. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes thousands of such syllabic combinations to facilitate efficient writing and reading of Korean, and it appears in words like 푸르다 (pureuda, meaning "blue" or "green").
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D478 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Pu |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄑ" U+1111 Hangul Choseong Phieuph "ᅮ" U+116E Hangul Jungseong U |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 푸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 푸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x91 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD478 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D478 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud478 |