U+D53C "피" Hangul Syllable Pi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
피
U+D53C "피" Hangul Syllable Pi is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "pi" as a combination of the consonant ㅍ (p) and the vowel ㅣ (i). This character functions as a single grapheme within modern Korean text, where it can form both native Korean words and loanwords, such as in the word for "blood" (피) or as a transliteration of the English word "pi" in mathematical contexts. Included in the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, it is encoded as a single code point for efficient digital representation of Korean syllabic blocks, which are traditionally written and processed as composite units in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D53C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Pi |
| 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 "ᅵ" U+1175 Hangul Jungseong I |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 피 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 피 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x94 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD53C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D53C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud53c |