U+BC48 "뱈" Hangul Syllable Baek Unicode Character
U+BC48 "뱈" Hangul Syllable Baek is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, sounding like "b") and the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae, sounding like "eh" or "æ"), followed by the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok, sounding like "k"). This syllable is not among the most common in everyday Korean vocabulary, but it appears in certain formal or literary contexts, such as in the archaic or poetic term "뱈돌" (baekdol), which refers to a type of quartz or milky stone, and it is included in the Hangul Syllables Unicode block (AC00–D7AF), which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean jamo into precomposed forms for efficient digital text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC48 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Baek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뱈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뱈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB1 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC48 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC48 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc48 |