U+BC3C "밼" Hangul Syllable Baels Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
밼
U+BC3C "밼" Hangul Syllable Baels is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "baels" as it would be used in written Hangul. This particular syllable is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant cluster ㄹㅅ (rieul and shiot, representing the final sound "ls"). It is part of the extensive Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet for efficient digital text representation. While not a common word in everyday Korean vocabulary, this syllable could theoretically appear in transliterations or less frequent lexical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC3C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Baels |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 밼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 밼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC3C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc3c |