U+BC4A "뱊" Hangul Syllable Baep Unicode Character
U+BC4A "뱊" Hangul Syllable Baep is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "baep" which is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (b), the vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㅍ (p). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a range that encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters as single code points for efficient text processing. While "뱊" is a valid and correctly formed syllable according to Korean orthographic rules, it is rarely used in everyday vocabulary and is considered a less common or marginal syllable due to the infrequency of its phonetic composition in standard Korean words. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that any text containing this syllable, such as specialized linguistic transcriptions or archaic terms, can be accurately represented and exchanged across digital platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC4A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Baep |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뱊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뱊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB1 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC4A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC4A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc4a |