U+BC30 "배" Hangul Syllable Bae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
배
U+BC30 "배" Hangul Syllable Bae is a precomposed syllabic block representing the Korean syllable "bae," which is formed by combining the consonant ㅂ (bieup) with the vowel ㅐ (ae). In the Korean language, this character carries multiple meanings, most commonly denoting the word for "pear" (the fruit) or "belly" or "stomach" depending on the context, and it is also used in terms like "ship" or "boat" when written in higher-level hanja-infused vocabulary. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, U+BC30 is a standard character used in modern Korean text, enabling the efficient representation of complex syllabic units common in the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC30 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bae |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄇ" U+1107 Hangul Choseong Pieup "ᅢ" U+1162 Hangul Jungseong Ae |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 배 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 배 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC30 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC30 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc30 |