U+BC4C "뱌" Hangul Syllable Bya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뱌
U+BC4C "뱌" Hangul Syllable Bya is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "bya." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup) with the medial vowel "ㅑ" (ya), and it does not include a final consonant, or batchim. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations in the standard Korean alphabet. In Korean orthography, "뱌" is less common than some other syllables but can appear in loanwords or specific native vocabulary, and its use follows the standard rules of syllabic block formation in Hangul typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC4C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bya |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄇ" U+1107 Hangul Choseong Pieup "ᅣ" U+1163 Hangul Jungseong Ya |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뱌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뱌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB1 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC4C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC4C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc4c |