Korean slang profile
ㅂㅂ
Bye-bye
A casual farewell written with the initial consonants of 바이바이.
- Expanded form
- 바이바이(bye bye)Bye-bye
- Other spellings
- —
- Earliest source found
- 2020
- Documented trend period
- Not verified
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
나 먼저 간다. ㅂㅂ!
I'm heading out first. Bye!
- Quoted from a source
ㅂㅂ/IC (바이바이)[1]
ㅂㅂ/IC (Bye Bye)
English translation by Julimmal.
02Documented history
- 2020The messenger conversation analysis guidelines of the National Institute of the Korean Language’s ‘2020 Lexical-Semantic Corpus Research and Analysis Project’ report included ‘ㅂㅂ (bye-bye)’ as an example of an initial consonant expression classified as an exclamation.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The report identifies it as the initial consonants of 바이바이, meaning “bye-bye.” When it was first used has not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationMedium
One line in a report identifies it as the initial consonants of 바이바이. When it began is unknown.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2020년 어휘의미 말뭉치 연구 분석 사업 (국립국어원)Published 2020Original source checked Nov 5, 2026