U+C03B "쀻" Hangul Syllable Bbwih Unicode Character
U+C03B "쀻" Hangul Syllable Bbwih is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅃ" (a tense, double "b" sound), the medial vowel "ㅟ" (pronounced like the English "wi" as in "we"), and the final consonant "ㅎ" (the aspirated "h" sound). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed by combining the individual jamo characters in a systematic way according to the Korean script's compositional rules. The syllable "쀻" itself is rarely used in contemporary Korean vocabulary, but its encoding in Unicode ensures that any valid Hangul syllable, regardless of frequency, can be accurately represented and processed in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C03B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbwih |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쀻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쀻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x80 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC03B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C03B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc03b |