U+D47E "푾" Hangul Syllable Punh Unicode Character
U+D47E "푾" Hangul Syllable Punh is a precomposed syllabic block representing the Korean sound "punh," formed by the initial consonant ㅍ (p), the medial vowel ㅜ (u), and the final consonant ㄴ (n) with a strong pronunciation. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode the 11,172 possible syllables of the modern Korean alphabet in a single, unified code point for efficient text processing. "Unh" specifically denotes a syllable that ends with the "h" sound in Korean phonetic classification, though in practice it is pronounced as "pun" with a tense or aspirated tone depending on context. As a standard character in the Unicode Standard, it ensures consistent representation of the Korean writing system across digital platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D47E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Punh |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "푸" U+D478 Hangul Syllable Pu "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 푾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 푾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x91 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD47E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D47E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud47e |