U+BF57 "뽗" Hangul Syllable Bboc Unicode Character
U+BF57 "뽗" Hangul Syllable Bboc is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅃ" (a tense bilabial stop with aspiration), the medial vowel "ㅗ" (the "o" sound), and the final consonant "ㅊ" (the "ch" sound). This specific syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all logically possible syllable combinations from the Korean alphabet to facilitate digital text processing and display. While "뽗" is a valid and recognizable syllable according to Korean orthographic rules, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, likely appearing only in specialized or rare contexts such as phonetic transcription, transliteration of foreign words, or experimental word formations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BF57 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bboc |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뽗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뽗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xBD 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBF57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BF57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubf57 |