U+C08C "삌" Hangul Syllable Bbyik Unicode Character
U+C08C "삌" Hangul Syllable Bbyik is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅃ” (a tense bilabial stop, romanized as bb), the medial vowel “ㅣ” (i), and the final consonant “ㄱ” (k). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode and is encoded as a single code point to facilitate efficient text processing for Korean language documents. Its pronunciation follows standard Korean phonology, where the final “ㄱ” is realized as an unreleased stop, making the syllable sound like “ppik” rather than “ppig” in English approximations. While relatively uncommon in everyday vocabulary, it appears in onomatopoeic expressions or specific dialects, and its encoding ensures that digital systems correctly display and search for this precise syllable without needing to combine individual jamo (Hangul letters).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C08C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbyik |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쁴" U+C074 Hangul Syllable Bbyi "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 삌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 삌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x82 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC08C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C08C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc08c |