U+D4B8 "풸" Hangul Syllable Pwel Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
풸
U+D4B8 "풸" Hangul Syllable Pwel is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅍ” (p), the vowel “ㅞ” (we), and the final consonant “ㄹ” (l), thus collectively pronounced “pwel.” This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single code point for efficient text processing. It is used in written Korean, though it is less common in modern everyday vocabulary compared to more frequent syllables, and may appear in specific words, transcriptions of foreign terms, or archaic linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D4B8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Pwel |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "풰" U+D4B0 Hangul Syllable Pwe "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 풸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 풸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x92 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD4B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D4B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud4b8 |