U+BC54 "뱔" Hangul Syllable Byal Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BC54 "뱔" Hangul Syllable Byal is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "byal" formed by the consonant ᄇ (bieup) for the /b/ sound, the vowel ᅣ (ya) for the /ja/ diphthong, and the final consonant ᇌ (rieul) for the /l/ sound. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet for efficient digital representation. While "뱔" itself is a valid syllable in the Hangul inventory, it is an uncommon character in everyday Korean vocabulary and does not appear in many standard words, making it a more obscure but technically correct part of the language's typographic system.

General Properties

Code Point U+BC54
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Byal
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뱌" U+BC4C Hangul Syllable Bya
"ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뱔
HTML Hex Encoding 뱔
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB1 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBC54
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BC54
C/C++/Java Escape \ubc54

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