U+BF58 "뽘" Hangul Syllable Bbok Unicode Character
U+BF58 "뽘" Hangul Syllable Bbok is a precomposed syllabic character within the Hangul Syllables block, representing the Korean syllable pronounced as "ppok" with a tense initial consonant. It is composed of the initial consonant ᄈ (ssangbieup, a double 'b' or 'p') and the medial vowel ᅩ (o), combined with the final consonant ᆨ (gieok, a 'k' sound). This specific syllable, while not among the most frequently used in modern Korean, is a valid and encoded part of the vast Hangul writing system, which includes thousands of such syllabic blocks to represent the language's phonetic combinations. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text and documents can accurately represent all standardized Korean syllables across platforms and software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BF58 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbok |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뽘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뽘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xBD 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBF58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BF58 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubf58 |