U+BC23 "밣" Hangul Syllable Balh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
밣
U+BC23 "밣" Hangul Syllable Balh is a precomposed Hangul syllable that represents the sound "balh", formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (b), the vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant ㅀ (lh), which is a double consonant cluster. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters in a single code point for efficient text processing and display. As a syllable in the modern Korean writing system, "밣" is used in writing words such as "밝다" (to be bright) and "밤" (night), where the final "lh" sound can influence pronunciation through consonant assimilation rules.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC23 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Balh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 밣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 밣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC23 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC23 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc23 |