U+BC21 "밡" Hangul Syllable Balt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
밡
U+BC21 "밡" Hangul Syllable Balt is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "balt." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (b), the medial vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant cluster ㄾ (lt), which is a compound final composed of ㄹ (l) and ㅌ (t). While this syllable is encoded in Unicode as part of the Hangul Syllables block for efficient text processing, it is not a commonly used word in standard Korean vocabulary, and its primary function is to complete the systematic representation of possible phonetic syllables in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC21 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Balt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 밡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 밡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC21 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc21 |