U+BC17 "밗" Hangul Syllable Bags Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BC17 "밗" Hangul Syllable Bags is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "bags" as composed of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup), the vowel "ㅏ" (a), and the final consonant "ㄳ" (giyeok siot). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean lead consonants, vowels, and tail consonants for efficient digital text representation. "밗" is a relatively rare syllable used in Korean vocabulary, appearing in words like "밗대" referring to a type of fishing net, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent rendering and interchange across modern computing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+BC17
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bags
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
"ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 밗
HTML Hex Encoding 밗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB0 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBC17
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BC17
C/C++/Java Escape \ubc17

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter