U+BC16 "밖" Hangul Syllable Bagg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
밖
U+BC16 "밖" Hangul Syllable Bagg is a precomposed Hangul syllable that represents the Korean sound "bak" with a tense final consonant, specifically the consonant ㅂ (bieup) doubled or reinforced in its pronunciation at the end of the syllable. This character is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant cluster or coda ㅄ (bieup siot), which in modern Korean is pronounced as a tense /k/ sound rather than its written components. It is commonly used in Korean text to mean "outside" or "outdoors" as in the word 밖 (bak), and it demonstrates how Hangul syllables encode phonetic and morphological information in a compact, block-like structure within the Unicode standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC16 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bagg |
| 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 "ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 밖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 밖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC16 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc16 |