U+BDB8 "붸" Hangul Syllable Bwe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
붸
U+BDB8 "붸" Hangul Syllable Bwe is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the consonant "ㅂ" (b) and the vowel "ㅞ" (we). This syllable is used in written Korean to form words and convey meaning within the language's alphabet system, appearing in Unicode's Hangul Syllables block which encodes all possible syllable blocks in standard Korean orthography. As a precomposed character, it simplifies text processing by providing a single codepoint for the entire syllable rather than requiring separate encoding for its individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BDB8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bwe |
| 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 "ᅰ" U+1170 Hangul Jungseong We |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 붸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 붸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB6 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBDB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BDB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubdb8 |