U+BD0B "봋" Hangul Syllable Boc Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BD0B "봋" Hangul Syllable Boc is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "boc" or "boch." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant ㅊ (chieut), making it a typical example of how Korean writing system organizes phonetic blocks into a single square-like unit. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables to efficiently encode the language for digital use, eliminating the need to store each component separately.

General Properties

Code Point U+BD0B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Boc
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
"ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 봋
HTML Hex Encoding 봋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB4 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBD0B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BD0B
C/C++/Java Escape \ubd0b

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