U+BC38 "밸" Hangul Syllable Bael Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
밸
U+BC38 "밸" Hangul Syllable Bael is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, sounding like "b"), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae, sounding like "eh" as in "bed"), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul, sounding like "l"), forming the syllable "bael." While this syllable does not frequently appear in common Korean vocabulary, it can be found in specific words, such as "밸브" (baelbeu), the Korean term for "valve," a loanword from English.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC38 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bael |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 밸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 밸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc38 |