U+C003 "쀃" Hangul Syllable Bbweoh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C003 "쀃" Hangul Syllable Bbweoh is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "bbweoh." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅃ (ssangbieup, a tense bilabial stop), the medial vowel ㅝ (weo, a combination of ㅜ and ㅓ), and the final consonant ㅎ (hieut, a glottal fricative). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo letters into single, indivisible code points for efficient text processing and display. While not commonly used in modern Korean vocabulary, it serves as a valid linguistic building block within the systematic structure of the Korean writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+C003
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbweoh
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
"ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쀃
HTML Hex Encoding 쀃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x80 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC003
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C003
C/C++/Java Escape \uc003

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