U+C03C "쀼" Hangul Syllable Bbyu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쀼
U+C03C "쀼" Hangul Syllable Bbyu is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the fortis initial consonant "ㅃ" (a tense, double "b" sound), the vowel "ㅠ" (pronounced like "yu" in English), and the implied final consonant "ㅇ" which results in a syllable-final nasal codas sound, specifically pronounced as "ppyu" without a tail. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible syllabic blocks formed from the Korean alphabet's initial consonants, vowels, and optional final consonants. This character is used in written Korean for specific vocabulary where such a syllable appears, such as in onomatopoeic expressions or loanword adaptations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C03C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbyu |
| 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 "ᅲ" U+1172 Hangul Jungseong Yu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쀼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쀼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x80 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC03C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C03C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc03c |