U+BCFD "볽" Hangul Syllable Bolg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BCFD "볽" Hangul Syllable Bolg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅂ” (b), the medial vowel “ㅗ” (o), and the final consonant “ㄺ” (lg), which is a double final consonant pronounced as a single “lg” sound. This syllable is used in the Korean language as part of the standard Hangul syllable block system, where each character is formed by combining individual jamo letters into a single, square-shaped unit. It is encoded in Unicode’s Hangul Syllables block, which contains over 11,000 such precomposed syllables to support the efficient representation of Korean text without requiring real-time composition of jamo.

General Properties

Code Point U+BCFD
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bolg
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
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 볽
HTML Hex Encoding 볽
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB3 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBCFD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BCFD
C/C++/Java Escape \ubcfd

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