U+BF8B "뾋" Hangul Syllable Bbwaes Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BF8B "뾋" Hangul Syllable Bbwaes is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅃ" (a tensed bilabial plosive) and the medial vowel "ㅙ" (a diphthong pronounced like the "we" in "wet"), followed by the final consonant "ㅅ" (an "s" sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed under the standardized Korean orthography, and its usage appears in written Korean to represent specific lexical items where this syllable occurs, though it is relatively uncommon in everyday vocabulary. Like all Hangul syllables, it is composed by combining individual jamo (alphabetic letters) into a single graphical block that fits squarely within text, maintaining the visual and phonetic consistency of the script.

General Properties

Code Point U+BF8B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbwaes
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뽸" U+BF78 Hangul Syllable Bbwae
"ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뾋
HTML Hex Encoding 뾋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xBE 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBF8B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BF8B
C/C++/Java Escape \ubf8b

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