U+BC44 "뱄" Hangul Syllable Baess Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BC44 "뱄" Hangul Syllable Baess is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "baess." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㅆ (ssang ssangbieup), which together produce a double s ending. Encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Hangul Syllables block (AC00 to D7AF), this character is used in modern Korean for spelling specific verb and adjective forms, such as the past tense or stem extensions, though it appears less frequently in common vocabulary compared to simpler syllables. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent representation across digital systems, enabling accurate text processing and display for the Korean language.

General Properties

Code Point U+BC44
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Baess
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
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뱄
HTML Hex Encoding 뱄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB1 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBC44
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BC44
C/C++/Java Escape \ubc44

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter