U+BD81 "북" Hangul Syllable Bug Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
북
U+BD81 "북" Hangul Syllable Bug is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "buk." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup) with the vowel ㅜ (u) and the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok), following the standard syllabic block structure of Hangul. This character corresponds to a morpheme meaning "north" or "book" in Korean, depending on context, and is widely used in modern Korean text to denote geographical direction or written materials.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD81 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bug |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "부" U+BD80 Hangul Syllable Bu "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 북 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 북 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB6 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD81 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD81 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd81 |