What does bb / bye-bye mean in Korean?
ㅂㅂ Bb / bye-bye
Also written: 바이바이
Meaning
Bye, in initial-consonant chat slang.
- When
- Appeared around 2003, peaked around 2008
- Heard in
- chat, greetings
- Feels
- neutral
- Politeness
- Casual. Fine with friends and online; skip it in formal writing or with people you should be polite to. It sounds dated now, so you'll mostly see it in older posts or used ironically.
How Koreans use Bb / bye-bye
난 이만 ㅂㅂ.
I'm out, bb.
내일 봐 ㅂㅂ.
See you tomorrow, bb.
Similar slang in other languages
- Japanese
- ほいたらね