U+BD08 "봈" Hangul Syllable Boss Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
봈
U+BD08 "봈" Hangul Syllable Boss is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "bos" or "boss" based on its component jamo letters: the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant ㅆ (ssanggieut). This specific block, the Hangul Syllables range, was introduced in Unicode version 2.0 to efficiently encode the tens of thousands of possible syllable blocks in the Hangul script. While the syllable "boss" is not a common Korean word in standard vocabulary, it appears in contexts where foreign loanwords, technical transcriptions, or creative usages require a direct phonetic mapping to the English borrowing for "boss" or similar terms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD08 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Boss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 봈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 봈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB4 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd08 |