U+C008 "쀈" Hangul Syllable Bbwen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쀈
U+C008 "쀈" Hangul Syllable Bbwen is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the sound "bbwen," formed by combining the initial consonant "쀠" (a tensed version of the bilabial sound starting with "b") with the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we) and the final consonant "ㄴ" (n). As a precomposed character in Unicode's Hangul Syllables block, it allows for efficient digital representation of Korean text without requiring dynamic combination of individual jamo characters. This particular syllable is relatively rare in everyday Korean vocabulary but demonstrates the systematic and phonetic design of the Hangul writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C008 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbwen |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쀄" U+C004 Hangul Syllable Bbwe "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쀈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쀈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x80 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC008 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C008 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc008 |