U+BFF8 "뿸" Hangul Syllable Bbweom Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BFF8 "뿸" Hangul Syllable Bbweom is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅃ" (a tense bilabial plosive), the medial vowel "ㅝ" (a diphthong formed from "ㅜ" and "ㅓ"), and the final consonant "ㅁ" (a bilabial nasal). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded as a single codepoint for efficient text processing, and its pronunciation roughly corresponds to "bbweom" in Romanized form. While it is a valid and defined syllable, it is rarely used in standard Korean vocabulary, appearing mainly in specialized or obsolete contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+BFF8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbweom
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
"ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뿸
HTML Hex Encoding 뿸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xBF 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBFF8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BFF8
C/C++/Java Escape \ubff8

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