U+BD5A "뵚" Hangul Syllable Boebs Unicode Character
U+BD5A "뵚" Hangul Syllable Boebs is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, sounding like "b"), the medial vowel "ㅚ" (oe, a diphthong sounding like "we" or "ö"), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (bieup as a batchim), producing a single syllable pronounced similarly to "boebs" or "bweb" with a stopped final consonant. This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes syllabic blocks formed by combining Korean jamo characters in a systematic and predictable manner starting at U+AC00. While the syllable "뵚" itself is relatively rare in everyday Korean vocabulary, its existence is primarily a result of Unicode’s complete coverage of all possible Hangul syllable combinations, ensuring that any theoretically valid syllable has a dedicated code point.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD5A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Boebs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뵈" U+BD48 Hangul Syllable Boe "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뵚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뵚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB5 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD5A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD5A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd5a |