U+C0A1 "삡" Hangul Syllable Bbib Unicode Character
U+C0A1 "삡" Hangul Syllable Bbib is a specific precomposed syllable within the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the consonants "ㅃ" (a tense bilabial stop, romanized as "bb") and "ㅂ" (a bilabial stop, romanized as "b"), with the vowel "ㅣ" (a high front unrounded vowel, romanized as "i") placed between them, resulting in the sound "bbib". As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is encoded as a single code point for efficient text processing, rather than being composed from individual jamo (letters) such as ᄈ (U+1108) and ᆸ (U+11B8). It is used in written Korean to form words, though it is relatively uncommon in everyday vocabulary, often appearing in specialized terms or expressive language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C0A1 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbib |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 삡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 삡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x82 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC0A1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C0A1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc0a1 |