U+BFA7 "뾧" Hangul Syllable Bboes Unicode Character
U+BFA7 "뾧" Hangul Syllable Bboes is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script used for writing the Korean language, representing the sound "bboes" as a combination of the initial consonant ᄈ (ssangbieup, a doubled 'b' sound), the medial vowel ㅚ (oe), and the final consonant ㅅ (siot). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes tens of thousands of such syllables to efficiently represent Korean text without requiring separate components for each jamo. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital systems can correctly display and process this specific syllable, contributing to the complete coverage needed for modern Korean writing. The character is typically used in native and Sino-Korean vocabulary, though it is relatively rare in everyday usage compared to more common syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BFA7 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bboes |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뾧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뾧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xBE 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBFA7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BFA7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubfa7 |