U+C02B "쀫" Hangul Syllable Bbwilb Unicode Character
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 |