U+BCF8 "본" Hangul Syllable Bon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
본
U+BCF8 "본" Hangul Syllable Bon is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "bon" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup) and the vowel ㅗ (o) with the final consonant ㄴ (nieun). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed by combining Korean jamo characters in a systematic manner. This specific syllable, 본, is commonly used in the Korean language to form words such as "본" meaning "origin" or "root" and appears in various contexts including names, academic terms, and everyday vocabulary. Its inclusion in Unicode enables consistent digital representation and text processing across different platforms and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCF8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bon |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "보" U+BCF4 Hangul Syllable Bo "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 본 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 본 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB3 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCF8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCF8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubcf8 |