U+BF8B "뾋" Hangul Syllable Bbwaes Unicode Character
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 |