U+C020 "쀠" Hangul Syllable Bbwi Unicode Character
U+C020 "쀠" Hangul Syllable Bbwi is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used primarily for the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "bbwi," which combines the double consonant "ㅃ" (a tense version of "b") with the vowel "ㅟ" (pronounced like the English "wee"), resulting in a sound that is not commonly used in contemporary standard Korean vocabulary. This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed from initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants in the Korean writing system. While it exists as a valid grapheme for completeness, due to its rarity in actual usage it appears mostly in linguistic contexts or specialized transliterations rather than everyday text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C020 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbwi |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄈ" U+1108 Hangul Choseong Ssangpieup "ᅱ" U+1171 Hangul Jungseong Wi |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쀠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쀠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x80 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC020 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C020 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc020 |