U+BF71 "뽱" Hangul Syllable Bbwang Unicode Character
U+BF71 "뽱" Hangul Syllable Bbwang is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "bbwang." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅃ (a tense or fortis bilabial stop, similar to a strongly pronounced "bb") combined with the medial vowel ㅘ (the diphthong "wa") and the final consonant ㅇ (which in this final position is a silent placeholder indicating that the syllable ends with a vowel sound, though "ng" is realized as a velar nasal in other contexts). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode Standard, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean consonants and vowels systematically assigned from U+AC00 to U+D7AF. The syllable "뽱" is relatively rare and is primarily used in transliterations or specific Korean dialectal or expressive contexts, as its exact meaning is typically determined by the word or phrase in which it appears.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BF71 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbwang |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뽜" U+BF5C Hangul Syllable Bbwa "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뽱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뽱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xBD 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBF71 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BF71 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubf71 |