U+BC15 "박" Hangul Syllable Bag Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
박
U+BC15 "박" Hangul Syllable Bag is a precomposed syllabic block in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the consonant "ㅂ" (bieup) and the vowel "ㅏ" (a) with the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok). This character carries the meaning associated with the Korean word "박," which commonly denotes a gourd or a surname, and it is widely used in modern Korean text for both linguistic and semantic purposes. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, "박" exemplifies the systematic encoding of Korean syllables, each occupying a single code point for efficient digital representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC15 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bag |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "바" U+BC14 Hangul Syllable Ba "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 박 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 박 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC15 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC15 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc15 |