U+D4B8 "풸" Hangul Syllable Pwel Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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