U+BCF9 "볹" Hangul Syllable Bonj Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BCF9 "볹" Hangul Syllable Bonj is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script used for writing the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "b" (ㅂ), the medial vowel "o" (ㅗ), and the final consonant "nj" (ㄵ). As part of the Hangul Syllables block, it was added to the Unicode Standard to provide a complete set of precomposed syllables for modern Korean text, enabling efficient encoding of written Korean without requiring dynamic composition of individual jamo characters. This specific syllable appears in Korean vocabulary and follows the systematic structure of Hangul, where characters are arranged by initial, medial, and final elements to form distinct syllabic blocks.

General Properties

Code Point U+BCF9
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bonj
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
"ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 볹
HTML Hex Encoding 볹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB3 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBCF9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BCF9
C/C++/Java Escape \ubcf9

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
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=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter