U+D7E8 "ퟨ" Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Cieuc Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D7E8 "ퟨ" Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Cieuc is a relatively rare and specialized character in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing a final consonant cluster that combines the sounds of the letters pieup (ㅍ) and cieuc (ㅈ) at the end of a syllable. This character is part of the Hangul Jamo Extended-A block, which was encoded in Unicode to support historical or archaic Korean texts, as this particular jongseong (final consonant) combination is not used in contemporary standard Korean orthography. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars and linguists can accurately represent and preserve older written forms of the Korean language, where such complex final clusters occasionally appeared due to historical sound changes or dialectal variations.

General Properties

Code Point U+D7E8
Version Added 5.2
Name Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Cieuc
Block Hangul Jamo Extended-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ퟨ
HTML Hex Encoding ퟨ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x9F 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD7E8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D7E8
C/C++/Java Escape \ud7e8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul T Jamo
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type Trailing Jamo
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=T
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter