U+D4B9 "풹" Hangul Syllable Pwelg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D4B9 "풹" Hangul Syllable Pwelg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅍ" (p), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㄺ" (lg). This syllable, pronounced roughly as "pwehlg" in isolation, is rarely used in contemporary standard Korean vocabulary but may appear in archaic texts, linguistic studies, or specialized technical contexts where precise Hangul transcription is required. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) and is one of 11,172 possible precomposed syllables in the Unicode standard, which was designed to encode the entire set of modern Hangul syllables for digital text representation and interoperability.

General Properties

Code Point U+D4B9
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Pwelg
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
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 풹
HTML Hex Encoding 풹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x92 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD4B9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D4B9
C/C++/Java Escape \ud4b9

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