U+BCD8 "볘" Hangul Syllable Bye Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
볘
U+BCD8 "볘" Hangul Syllable Bye is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "bye," formed from the initial consonant bieup (ㅂ, equivalent to 'b'), the medial vowel ye (ㅖ, a diphthong pronounced 'yeh'), and no final consonant. It is part of the modern Hangul syllabary used in the Korean writing system, where thousands of such syllable blocks are encoded individually in Unicode for efficient text processing. This specific syllable appears in Korean vocabulary, such as in the word "볘" (bye), which can be used as a respectful honorific title meaning "madam" or "lady" when addressing a married woman, though it is less common than alternative forms like "부인" or "아주머니" in contemporary speech.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCD8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bye |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄇ" U+1107 Hangul Choseong Pieup "ᅨ" U+1168 Hangul Jungseong Ye |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 볘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 볘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB3 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCD8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCD8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubcd8 |