U+BF38 "뼸" Hangul Syllable Bbyess Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BF38 "뼸" Hangul Syllable Bbyess is a specific Korean syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the phonetic compound "bbyeot" or "bbyess" based on its composition of initial consonant “ㅃ” (ssangbieup, a tense bilabial stop), vowel “ㅖ” (ye, a diphthong), and final consonant “ㅆ” (ssangbieut, a tense alveolar fricative). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes precomposed syllables formed from Korean alphabet letters, and it is used in written Korean to convey particular words or morphemes where this precise sound combination occurs, though it is relatively rare compared to more common syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+BF38
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbyess
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뼤" U+BF24 Hangul Syllable Bbye
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뼸
HTML Hex Encoding 뼸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xBC 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBF38
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BF38
C/C++/Java Escape \ubf38

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