U+C090 "삐" Hangul Syllable Bbi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
삐
U+C090 "삐" Hangul Syllable Bbi is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "bbi" as formed by the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup) and the vowel ㅣ (i). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet. In practical use, "삐" appears in Korean words such as the verb 삐다 (ppida), meaning to twist or sprain, and is also commonly used in onomatopoeic expressions like 삐익 (bbik) for the sound of a squeak or horn. It is not a common everyday character but is essential for accurate digital representation of the Korean language in text processing and typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C090 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbi |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄈ" U+1108 Hangul Choseong Ssangpieup "ᅵ" U+1175 Hangul Jungseong I |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 삐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 삐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x82 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC090 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C090 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc090 |