U+BFC0 "뿀" Hangul Syllable Bbyom Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BFC0 "뿀" Hangul Syllable Bbyom is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅃ” (a tense or fortis bilabial sound akin to a sharp ‘p’), the medial vowel “ㅛ” (pronounced ‘yo’), and the final consonant “ㅁ” (the nasal ‘m’). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, this character represents a single phonetic unit used in written Korean to denote the sound “bbyom,” though it is not a common or frequently used syllable in everyday vocabulary. Its existence within Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately represent the full range of Korean language phonetics, including less frequent but linguistically valid syllables like this one.

General Properties

Code Point U+BFC0
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbyom
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
"ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뿀
HTML Hex Encoding 뿀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xBF 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBFC0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BFC0
C/C++/Java Escape \ubfc0

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