U+D4A8 "풨" Hangul Syllable Pweoss Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D4A8 "풨" Hangul Syllable Pweoss is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "pweoss" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅍ (p), the vowel ㅞ (we), and the final consonant cluster ㅆ (ss). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet according to the standard order defined by South Korea. As a precomposed form, it allows text processing to handle this specific syllable as a single character rather than a sequence of individual jamo, which is more efficient for rendering and searching Korean text. Though not among the most commonly used syllables in everyday Korean, "풨" appears in certain vocabulary or transcriptions, contributing to the comprehensive coverage of over 11,000 Hangul syllables in the Unicode standard.

General Properties

Code Point U+D4A8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Pweoss
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "풔" U+D494 Hangul Syllable Pweo
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 풨
HTML Hex Encoding 풨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x92 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD4A8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D4A8
C/C++/Java Escape \ud4a8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter