U+C048 "쁈" Hangul Syllable Bbyuls Unicode Character
U+C048 "쁈" Hangul Syllable Bbyuls is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant 'ㅃ' (a tensed bilabial plosive), the medial vowel 'ㅠ' (the vowel 'yu'), and the final consonant 'ㄹ' (the liquid 'l') followed by 'ㅅ' (the sibilant 's') as a complex coda. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible 11,172 syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet, and it is used in written Korean to denote the sound pronounced as "bbyuls" in Romanization. While not among the most common syllables in everyday Korean vocabulary, it can appear in specific native words or loanword transcriptions, and its inclusion ensures that the entirety of the modern hangul syllabary is represented for digital text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C048 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbyuls |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쀼" U+C03C Hangul Syllable Bbyu "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쁈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쁈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x81 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC048 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C048 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc048 |