U+BC3A "밺" Hangul Syllable Baelm Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
밺
U+BC3A "밺" Hangul Syllable Baelm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "baelm." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅂ" (b), the vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant cluster "ㄻ" (lm), which is a complex coda. This specific syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, encoding thousands of such syllabic combinations used in Korean text. The character "밺" exemplifies how Hangul aggregates individual jamo letters into a single, compact glyph, facilitating efficient digital representation and rendering of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC3A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Baelm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 밺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 밺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC3A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC3A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc3a |