U+BFA3 "뾣" Hangul Syllable Bboelh Unicode Character
U+BFA3 "뾣" Hangul Syllable Bboelh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant 'ㅃ' (a tense or double bilabial stop, romanized as "bb"), the medial vowel 'ㅚ' (a single rounded front vowel, romanized as "oe"), and the final consonant 'ㅀ' (a double consonant cluster of 'ㄹ' and 'ㅎ', romanized as "lh"). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character encodes a complete syllable block that would be written as a single square-shaped unit, allowing for proper rendering and digital processing in Korean text. It is a relatively rare character, used primarily in specific lexical contexts or as a building block for compound words, and its pronunciation involves a tense initial stop followed by a nonstandard vowel and a complex final cluster where the 'ㅎ' is typically not pronounced as an independent sound but rather affects the vowel’s tone or aspiration in spoken Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BFA3 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bboelh |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뾔" U+BF94 Hangul Syllable Bboe "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뾣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뾣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xBE 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBFA3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BFA3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubfa3 |