U+BCFA "볺" Hangul Syllable Bonh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BCFA "볺" Hangul Syllable Bonh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "bonh" as part of a larger block of syllables. It is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant ㄶ (nh), which is a complex coda combining ㄴ and ㅎ. This character is used in the Korean language to write specific words or morphemes, though it is not among the most common syllables, appearing in contexts such as formal or literary texts. As part of the Hangul Syllables block, it follows Unicode's consistent encoding for all possible syllable combinations in modern Korean orthography.

General Properties

Code Point U+BCFA
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bonh
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
"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 볺
HTML Hex Encoding 볺
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB3 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBCFA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BCFA
C/C++/Java Escape \ubcfa

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