U+BD8F "붏" Hangul Syllable Bulh Unicode Character
U+BD8F "붏" Hangul Syllable Bulh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the sound "bulh" as a single character block rather than a sequence of individual jamo letters. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 such precomposed syllables to facilitate digital text processing. The syllable is composed of the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅜ (u), and the final consonant ㅀ (rieul-hieut), the latter being a compound final consonant that combines ㄹ (rieul) and ㅎ (hieut). As a relatively rare syllable in everyday Korean vocabulary, "붏" may appear in specific words or contexts, such as in the verb "붏다" (to patch or mend) or its derived forms, illustrating the nuanced phonetic and orthographic structure possible within the Hangul writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD8F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bulh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 붏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 붏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB6 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD8F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd8f |