U+BF08 "뼈" Hangul Syllable Bbyeo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뼈
U+BF08 "뼈" Hangul Syllable Bbyeo is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "bbyeo" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅃ (ssangbieup, a tensed bilabial stop) and the vertical vowel ㅕ (yeo), followed by no final consonant. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo (letters) as single code points for efficient text processing. In Korean, "뼈" is a common noun that means "bone," referring to the hard skeletal structure in vertebrates, and it appears frequently in everyday vocabulary, medical terminology, and idiomatic expressions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BF08 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbyeo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄈ" U+1108 Hangul Choseong Ssangpieup "ᅧ" U+1167 Hangul Jungseong Yeo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뼈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뼈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xBC 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBF08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BF08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubf08 |