U+C038 "쀸" Hangul Syllable Bbwik Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C038 "쀸" Hangul Syllable Bbwik is a single glyph representing the Korean syllable composed of the double consonant ㅃ (ssangbieup) and the vowel ㅟ (wi), ending with the consonant ㄱ (giyeok). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains precomposed syllables for the modern Korean alphabet, and its usage reflects the phonetic structure of the Korean language where individual jamo (letters) are combined into syllabic blocks. This particular character would appear in Korean text primarily for words or names that require the specific "bbwik" sound, though it is less common than many other syllables due to the relative rarity of its constituent phonemes in everyday vocabulary.

General Properties

Code Point U+C038
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbwik
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
"ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쀸
HTML Hex Encoding 쀸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x80 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC038
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C038
C/C++/Java Escape \uc038

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