U+BCF9 "볹" Hangul Syllable Bonj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
볹
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 |