U+BF46 "뽆" Hangul Syllable Bbonh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BF46 "뽆" Hangul Syllable Bbonh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅃ” (a tense bilabial plosive), the medial vowel “ㅗ” (a back rounded vowel pronounced “o”), and the final consonant “ㄶ” (an aspirated alveolar nasal represented as “nh”). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean letters in a single code point for efficient text processing. Typically used in writing the Korean language, this particular syllable is relatively rare in common vocabulary, but it demonstrates the systematic and phonetically precise nature of Hangul’s alphabetic design, where each syllable block represents a distinct sound unit.

General Properties

Code Point U+BF46
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbonh
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뽀" U+BF40 Hangul Syllable Bbo
"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뽆
HTML Hex Encoding 뽆
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xBD 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBF46
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BF46
C/C++/Java Escape \ubf46

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