U+BC40 "뱀" Hangul Syllable Baem Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뱀
U+BC40 "뱀" Hangul Syllable Baem is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean word for "snake," pronounced "baem." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum), following the standard structure of the Korean writing system. This character is commonly used in modern Korean language and literature, appearing in contexts ranging from zodiac symbolism to everyday vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC40 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Baem |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뱀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뱀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB1 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC40 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc40 |