U+BC34 "밴" Hangul Syllable Baen Unicode Character
U+BC34 "밴" Hangul Syllable Baen is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "baen." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup, equivalent to "b" or "p") with the vowel ㅐ (ae), represented vertically as a medial stroke, and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun, equivalent to "n"), which together create a single, fully formed syllabic block. This character is part of the extensive Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 such syllables to efficiently represent the Korean language in digital text. In standard contemporary Korean, "밴" appears in various words, such as "밴드" (baendeu, meaning "band") or as part of compound terms, and its usage follows the orthographic rules of the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC34 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Baen |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "배" U+BC30 Hangul Syllable Bae "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 밴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 밴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC34 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC34 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc34 |