U+BC46 "뱆" Hangul Syllable Baej Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뱆
U+BC46 "뱆" Hangul Syllable Baej is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "baej" and formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅂ" (b), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㅈ" (j) as a batchim. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks of the Korean alphabet in logical order. As a composite character, 뱆 is used in written Korean to represent a specific phonetic unit, though it is relatively rare in modern vocabulary compared to more common syllables like 배 (bae). Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that it can be correctly rendered and processed across digital platforms, supporting the full range of Hangul textual representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC46 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Baej |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뱆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뱆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB1 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC46 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC46 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc46 |