U+BD9F "붟" Hangul Syllable Bweogs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BD9F "붟" Hangul Syllable Bweogs is a precomposed syllable from the Hangul script used to write the Korean language. It represents the sound "bweoks," formed by combining the initial consonant ᄇ (bieup, similar to a 'b'), the medial vowel ᅯ (weo, a glide vowel), and the final consonant ᆨ (giyeok, a 'k/g' sound). As part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, it was added to allow for efficient digital encoding of modern Korean text, where thousands of such phonetically built syllables are assigned unique codepoints. While not among the most frequently used syllables in contemporary Korean vocabulary, its existence illustrates the systematic nature of Hangul's writing system, where characters are logically assembled from individual jamo components to represent specific phonetic combinations in the language.

General Properties

Code Point U+BD9F
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bweogs
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "붜" U+BD9C Hangul Syllable Bweo
"ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 붟
HTML Hex Encoding 붟
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB6 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBD9F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BD9F
C/C++/Java Escape \ubd9f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT 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=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter