U+C05E "쁞" Hangul Syllable Bbeunh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C05E "쁞" Hangul Syllable Bbeunh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing a phonological block pronounced roughly as "bbeunh". It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅃ (ssangbieup, a tense bilabial stop), the medial vowel ㅡ (eu), and the final consonant cluster ㄶ (nieun-hieut), which produces a complex coda sound. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a large, precomposed range designed to encode all possible two- and three-part syllable combinations used in the Korean language for efficient digital representation. While relatively rare in everyday Korean vocabulary, it exemplifies the systematic orthographic structure of Hangul, where syllabic blocks are constructed logically from individual jamo letters to represent distinct spoken sounds.

General Properties

Code Point U+C05E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbeunh
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "쁘" U+C058 Hangul Syllable Bbeu
"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쁞
HTML Hex Encoding 쁞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x81 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC05E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C05E
C/C++/Java Escape \uc05e

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