U+BCFC "볼" Hangul Syllable Bol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
볼
U+BCFC "볼" Hangul Syllable Bol is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "bol" as formed by the initial consonant ᄇ (bieup), the vowel ᄋ (o), and the final consonant ᄅ (rieul). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Hangul leadings, vowels, and trailing consonants in a single code point for efficient text processing. The syllable "볼" generally functions as a noun meaning "ball" or a verb meaning "to see" or "to look" depending on context, and it is widely used in everyday Korean vocabulary, such as in words like 볼펜 (bolpen, meaning "ballpoint pen") or the verb 보다 (boda, "to see") in its conjugated forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCFC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bol |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 볼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 볼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB3 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCFC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCFC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubcfc |