U+BFF2 "뿲" Hangul Syllable Bbweolm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BFF2 "뿲" Hangul Syllable Bbweolm is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "bbweolm," formed from the initial consonant ㅃ (ssangbieup), the vowel ㅝ (weo), and the final consonant ㄻ (rieul-mieum). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character follows the systematic arrangement of the modern Korean alphabet, where each syllable block is encoded individually for efficient text processing. While it is a valid and correctly formed syllable in the hangul writing system, "뿲" is an extremely rare or non-existent word in standard Korean vocabulary, serving primarily as a linguistic placeholder or a demonstration of the writing system's combinatorial depth. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that any theoretically possible hangul syllable can be represented digitally, preserving the full expressive capacity of the Korean script.

General Properties

Code Point U+BFF2
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbweolm
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뿨" U+BFE8 Hangul Syllable Bbweo
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뿲
HTML Hex Encoding 뿲
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xBF 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBFF2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BFF2
C/C++/Java Escape \ubff2

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