U+BF40 "뽀" Hangul Syllable Bbo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뽀
U+BF40 "뽀" Hangul Syllable Bbo is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "bbo" as a tensed or reinforced bilabial stop followed by the open-mid back vowel "o". It is formed from the initial consonant ㅃ (ssangbieup, a double "b" or fortis sound), the vowel ㅗ (o), and the absence of a final consonant, making it a complete and independent syllable block in the Korean alphabet. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, vowels, and optional final consonants in a standardized order for digital text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BF40 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbo |
| 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 "ᅩ" U+1169 Hangul Jungseong O |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뽀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뽀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xBD 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBF40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BF40 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubf40 |