U+BC20 "밠" Hangul Syllable Bals Unicode Character
U+BC20 "밠" Hangul Syllable Bals is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup, pronounced as /b/ or /p/) with the vowel ㅏ (a, pronounced as /a/) and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul, pronounced as /l/), resulting in the sound "bals." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which systematically encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean jamo characters to facilitate digital text processing. While "밠" is a valid syllable in terms of the Korean writing system, it is not a commonly used word in standard Korean, and it typically appears only in specialized linguistic contexts or as a theoretical construct for representing the sound "bals" in Korean phonetics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC20 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bals |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 밠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 밠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC20 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC20 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc20 |