U+BCFE "볾" Hangul Syllable Bolm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BCFE "볾" Hangul Syllable Bolm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "bolm" composed of the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant ㄻ (rieul-mieum). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes thousands of precomposed syllables to facilitate efficient text processing for the Korean language. In practical use, "볾" may appear in specific Korean words or transcriptions, though it is a relatively rare syllable not commonly found in everyday vocabulary, and it is typically displayed in digital text when the standard algorithmic Hangul syllable composition is used.

General Properties

Code Point U+BCFE
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bolm
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
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 볾
HTML Hex Encoding 볾
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB3 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBCFE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BCFE
C/C++/Java Escape \ubcfe

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