U+C08E "삎" Hangul Syllable Bbyip Unicode Character
U+C08E "삎" Hangul Syllable Bbyip is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "bbyip." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄈ (ssangbieup, a double "b" sound), the vowel ᅵ (i), and the final consonant ᆸ (bieup), which together create a tense and tightly pronounced syllable. This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which was added to the standard to encode the thousands of possible syllable combinations in Korean without requiring dynamic composition from individual jamo characters. Its usage is primarily typographic, appearing in written Korean to represent a specific phonetic combination that can occur in native vocabulary, loanwords, or poetic contexts, though it is not one of the most common syllables in everyday speech.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C08E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbyip |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 삎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 삎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x82 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC08E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C08E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc08e |