U+BD88 "불" Hangul Syllable Bul Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
불
U+BD88 "불" Hangul Syllable Bul is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "bul". It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup) with the medial vowel ㅜ (u) and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul). In the Korean language, this syllable carries multiple meanings, most commonly referring to "fire" or "light", and it appears as a fundamental component in countless Korean words, such as "불꽃" (bulkkot meaning flame) or "불빛" (bulbit meaning light). As a single character in the Unicode Standard, it is encoded in the Hangul Syllables block, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables to facilitate efficient text processing and display for Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD88 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bul |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 불 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 불 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB6 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd88 |