U+BFB9 "뾹" Hangul Syllable Bbyolg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BFB9 "뾹" Hangul Syllable Bbyolg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used for the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant 'ㅃ' (a tense bilabial stop, romanized as bb) with the medial vowel 'ㅛ' (yo) and the final consonant 'ㄺ' (lg), resulting in the sound "bbyolg." This character is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable blocks based on the Korean writing system's phonetic principles. Because Hangul syllables are systematically arranged in Unicode by their constituent jamo components, U+BFB9 appears in the sequence of syllables beginning with 'ㅃ' and containing the vowel 'ㅛ' followed by a complex final consonant cluster. While "뾹" is a valid and correctly formed syllable in the Hangul inventory, it is extremely rare or obsolete in actual Korean vocabulary, as words requiring this particular combination of sounds do not commonly appear in standard or historical usage.

General Properties

Code Point U+BFB9
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbyolg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뾰" U+BFB0 Hangul Syllable Bbyo
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뾹
HTML Hex Encoding 뾹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xBE 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBFB9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BFB9
C/C++/Java Escape \ubfb9

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