U+BC14 "바" Hangul Syllable Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
바
U+BC14 "바" Hangul Syllable Ba is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ba." It is formed by combining the initial consonant letter ᄇ (bieup, equivalent to "b") with the vowel letter ᅡ (a, a low back vowel), and it does not include a final consonant, making it an open syllable. In Korean, this syllable appears in many common words, such as 바다 (bada, meaning "sea") and 바나나 (banana), and it is widely used in both formal and informal contexts across the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC14 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ba |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄇ" U+1107 Hangul Choseong Pieup "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 바 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 바 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC14 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC14 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc14 |