U+BDDE "뷞" Hangul Syllable Bwilm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BDDE "뷞" Hangul Syllable Bwilm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "bwilm" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅂ (b), the medial vowel ㅟ (wi), and the final consonant ㄻ (lm). Rarely encountered in contemporary Korean text, this syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) and was encoded in Unicode version 2.0 in 1996 as part of the systematic inclusion of all possible legal phonemic combinations in the Hangul script. Its existence allows for precise representation of certain older or dialectal Korean words, though it serves primarily as a theoretical component of the script's exhaustive syllabic inventory rather than a common symbol in everyday use.

General Properties

Code Point U+BDDE
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bwilm
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뷔" U+BDD4 Hangul Syllable Bwi
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뷞
HTML Hex Encoding 뷞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB7 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBDDE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BDDE
C/C++/Java Escape \ubdde

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