U+BFE7 "뿧" Hangul Syllable Bbuh Unicode Character
U+BFE7 "뿧" Hangul Syllable Bbuh is a specific syllabic block in the modern Korean writing system, composed of the initial consonant "ㅃ" (a tense, doubled bilabial sound similar to a strongly pronounced English "p") and the vowel "ㅜ" (a high back rounded vowel like the "oo" in "boot", transcribed as 'u') combined with the final consonant "ㅎ" (an aspirated glottal sound written as 'h' in Romanization). This syllable does not form a common stand-alone word in standard Korean vocabulary, but it appears as a phonetic component in certain compound words, dialectal expressions, or onomatopoeic terms where the tight pronunciation of the initial consonant and the ending aspiration carry a specific emphatic or abrupt tonal quality. Its existence within the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard ensures that this and other rarely used syllables can be digitally represented and processed consistently for specialized linguistic, historical, or rare textual needs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BFE7 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbuh |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뿧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뿧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xBF 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBFE7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BFE7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubfe7 |