U+BD9C "붜" Hangul Syllable Bweo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BD9C "붜" Hangul Syllable Bweo is a precomposed syllable representing the sound "bweo" and consists of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, pronounced like the English "b") combined with the vertical vowel "ㅝ" (weo). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes modern Korean syllables formed from initial consonants, vowels, and optional final consonants, each assigned a unique code point in a systematic order based on the Korean alphabet. The syllable "붜" is used in written Korean but is less common than some other syllables, appearing in specific lexical contexts or as part of compound words, and it exemplifies the modular structure of Hangul where phonetic components are combined into a single square block.

General Properties

Code Point U+BD9C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bweo
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "ᄇ" U+1107 Hangul Choseong Pieup
"ᅯ" U+116F Hangul Jungseong Weo

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 붜
HTML Hex Encoding 붜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB6 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBD9C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BD9C
C/C++/Java Escape \ubd9c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LV Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LV Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LV
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter