U+C053 "쁓" Hangul Syllable Bbyuc Unicode Character
U+C053 "쁓" Hangul Syllable Bbyuc is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅃ" (a tense double bilabial stop, romanized as "bb") and the final consonant "ㄱ" (a velar stop "g" or "k"). The syllable is formed by placing the vowel "ㅠ" (the semivowel "y" followed by the back vowel "u") as the medial element, resulting in the sound "bbyuc" or "bbyuk" in the Revised Romanization of Korean. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which encodes all 11,172 possible modern Korean syllable blocks in a contiguous range. As a rarely used but valid grapheme, U+C053 supports the accurate representation of Korean text in digital environments, enabling proper display and processing of the language's alphabetic syllabic structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C053 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbyuc |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쁓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쁓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x81 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC053 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C053 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc053 |