U+BFA9 "뾩" Hangul Syllable Bboeng Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BFA9 "뾩" Hangul Syllable Bboeng is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used to write the Korean language. It represents the sound "bboeng," combining the initial consonant ᄈ (a tensed or double "b" sound), the vowel ㅚ (a compound vowel pronounced like "oe" or "we"), and the final consonant ᆼ (the "ng" sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which was encoded in Unicode to support the efficient digital representation of Korean text by providing complete syllable forms rather than requiring dynamic composition from individual jamo letters.

General Properties

Code Point U+BFA9
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bboeng
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뾩
HTML Hex Encoding 뾩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xBE 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBFA9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BFA9
C/C++/Java Escape \ubfa9

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