U+BFE5 "뿥" Hangul Syllable Bbut Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뿥
U+BFE5 "뿥" Hangul Syllable Bbut is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing a single sound block formed from the initial consonant ㅃ (a tensed bilabial stop), the vowel ㅜ (a back rounded vowel), and the final consonant ㅌ (an aspirated alveolar stop). As a member of the Hangul Syllables block, it was encoded in Unicode version 2.0 in 1996 to support complete syllable inventory for the Korean script, allowing for efficient text processing and display of the Korean language. This specific syllable is relatively uncommon in everyday Korean vocabulary, but it may appear in phonological or stylistic contexts, such as in onomatopoeia or dialectal expressions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BFE5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbut |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뿥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뿥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xBF 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBFE5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BFE5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubfe5 |