U+D504 "프" Hangul Syllable Peu Unicode Character
U+D504 "프" Hangul Syllable Peu is a precomposed syllable representing the sound "peu" in the modern Korean Hangul writing system. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅍ" (pieup, representing a p sound) with the medial vowel "ㅡ" (eu, a high back unrounded vowel), and it has no final consonant, resulting in a simple, open syllable. As part of the Hangul Syllables block, this character is encoded as a single unified code point for efficient text representation, allowing Korean digital text to display "프" correctly without separate character assembly. It appears frequently in Korean words, such as in "프로그램" (peurogeuraem, meaning program) and other loanwords or native terms, making it a practical element for both written Korean and computational handling of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D504 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Peu |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄑ" U+1111 Hangul Choseong Phieuph "ᅳ" U+1173 Hangul Jungseong Eu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 프 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 프 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x94 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD504 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D504 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud504 |