U+C018 "쀘" Hangul Syllable Bbwess Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쀘
U+C018 "쀘" Hangul Syllable Bbwess is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "bbwe" or "ppwe" depending on romanization conventions. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅃ" (a tensed bilabial stop, romanized as bb or pp), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (a diphthong combining "ㅜ" and "ㅔ" to produce the "we" sound), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (a tensed alveolar sibilant, romanized as ss). This syllable demonstrates how Hangul blocks are built systematically to represent a single phonetic unit, with U+C018 specifically belonging to the Hangul Syllables block, which covers all possible combinations of initial, medial, and final jamo in Korean orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C018 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbwess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쀘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쀘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x80 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC018 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C018 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc018 |