U+BC27 "밧" Hangul Syllable Bas Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BC27 "밧" Hangul Syllable Bas is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "bas" formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (b), the vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant ㅅ (t, pronounced as a stop). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet arranged in a standardized order. In practical use, "밧" appears in Korean text as a syllable for words or morphemes, such as in the word "밧줄" meaning "rope," and its composition reflects the systematic and phonetic nature of Hangul, where each syllable block is encoded as a single character for efficient text processing and display.

General Properties

Code Point U+BC27
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bas
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
"ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 밧
HTML Hex Encoding 밧
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB0 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBC27
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BC27
C/C++/Java Escape \ubc27

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