U+BC26 "밦" Hangul Syllable Babs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BC26 "밦" Hangul Syllable Babs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic value "babs" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant ㅂ (bieup) as a batchim. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet, and it is used in written Korean to form words or syllables where this specific sound is required. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms for Korean language text.

General Properties

Code Point U+BC26
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Babs
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
"ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 밦
HTML Hex Encoding 밦
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB0 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBC26
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BC26
C/C++/Java Escape \ubc26

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