U+BFA7 "뾧" Hangul Syllable Bboes Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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