U+BC3D "밽" Hangul Syllable Baelt Unicode Character
U+BC3D "밽" Hangul Syllable Baelt is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean phonetic syllable "baelt". It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, sounding like "b"), the vowel "ㅐ" (ae, a mid front vowel akin to the "a" in "cat"), and the final consonant "ㄵ" (njeeut, a compound final pronounced as "lt" in this context, though its exact realization can vary by dialect). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which systematically encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial, medial, and final letters, with U+BC3D specifically cataloging the syllable that includes the rare final cluster "ㄵ". While not a common word in modern Korean vocabulary, "밽" demonstrates the structural completeness of the Hangul writing system, where each syllable block is assigned a unique code point in the Unicode standard to support accurate text rendering and digital representation of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC3D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Baelt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 밽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 밽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC3D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC3D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc3d |