U+BD5B "뵛" Hangul Syllable Boes Unicode Character
U+BD5B "뵛" Hangul Syllable Boes is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅂ” (bieup, sounding like b/p), the medial vowel “ㅚ” (oe, pronounced as a close-mid front rounded vowel like the ‘œ’ in French “œuf”), and the final consonant “ㅎ” (hieut, representing an h sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, a comprehensive collection that encodes all possible syllabic combinations in the Korean alphabet, enabling text processing and display without needing dynamic composition from jamo components. As a practically uncommon syllable, its usage is rare in contemporary Korean, typically appearing in specialized or archaic contexts, but it remains a valid encoded symbol for accurate representation in Unicode standards.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD5B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Boes |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뵛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뵛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB5 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD5B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD5B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd5b |