U+C09F "삟" Hangul Syllable Bbilh Unicode Character
U+C09F "삟" Hangul Syllable Bbilh is a precomposed Hangul syllable from the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "bbilh" in the Romanized transcription of Korean. It is formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅃ” (a tense bilabial stop sound similar to a strongly pronounced English "p" or "b") with the vowel “ㅣ” (a long "ee" sound) and the final consonant “ㅀ” (a consonant cluster representing a bright "l" sound followed by a breathy "h"). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character allows for the efficient digital representation of Korean text by encoding complete syllables as single code points, rather than requiring separate composition from individual jamo letters. However, "삟" is a relatively rare or archaic syllable, as the consonant cluster “ㅀ” appears infrequently in modern standard Korean vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C09F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbilh |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "삐" U+C090 Hangul Syllable Bbi "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 삟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 삟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x82 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC09F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C09F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc09f |