U+BDE7 "뷧" Hangul Syllable Bwis Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BDE7 "뷧" Hangul Syllable Bwis is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (b), the medial vowel "ㅟ" (wi), and the final consonant "ㅅ" (s), resulting in the sound "bwis". This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes syllables formed from initial consonants, vowels, and optional final consonants. While it is a validly encoded letter in the Unicode standard, it is not a commonly used syllable in contemporary Korean vocabulary, as its individual components are more typically combined in different syllabic structures. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that all potentially needed syllables from the Korean writing system are available for digital text representation, even for rare or obsolete words.

General Properties

Code Point U+BDE7
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bwis
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
"ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뷧
HTML Hex Encoding 뷧
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB7 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBDE7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BDE7
C/C++/Java Escape \ubde7

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