U+C02B "쀫" Hangul Syllable Bbwilb Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C02B "쀫" Hangul Syllable Bbwilb is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used in the Korean writing system to represent the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅃ" (a tense or fortis bilabial stop), the medial vowel "ㅟ" (a front rounded vowel similar to the French 'u'), and the final consonant "ㄼ" (a cluster of 'l' and 'b' sounds, though in practice it is typically pronounced as 'l' before consonants or at the end of a syllable). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants in the Korean alphabet, allowing for a complete representation of the language's phonological structure. While extremely rare in natural Korean vocabulary, "쀫" demonstrates the systematic and combinatorial nature of Hangul, where such a syllable can be formed by combining existing jamo components, even if it does not appear in standard Korean dictionaries.

General Properties

Code Point U+C02B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbwilb
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "쀠" U+C020 Hangul Syllable Bbwi
"ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쀫
HTML Hex Encoding 쀫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x80 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC02B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C02B
C/C++/Java Escape \uc02b

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