U+BFD8 "뿘" Hangul Syllable Bbuls Unicode Character
U+BFD8 "뿘" Hangul Syllable Bbuls is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant 'ㅃ' (a tense bilabial stop), the medial vowel 'ㅜ' (a back rounded vowel), and the final consonant 'ㄹ' (a liquid or flap sound). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible syllable blocks formed by the standard rules of Korean orthography. While not among the most common syllables in everyday Korean vocabulary, it appears in certain native and borrowed words, such as in the verb "뿔리다" (to root or push), and its pronunciation can vary slightly depending on regional dialect. The character is encoded as a single code point to simplify text processing and display in digital environments, consistent with Unicode's approach to handling the vast number of Hangul syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BFD8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbuls |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뿌" U+BFCC Hangul Syllable Bbu "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뿘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뿘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xBF 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBFD8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BFD8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubfd8 |