U+BC58 "뱘" Hangul Syllable Byals Unicode Character
U+BC58 "뱘" Hangul Syllable Byals is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic value "byals," formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅑ (ya), and the final consonant ㅀ (rieul-hieut), which is a double final consonant. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character simplifies text processing by encoding the entire syllable as a single code point rather than requiring separate jamo components. It is used in Korean text to denote a syllable that may appear in vocabulary or transliterations, though it is relatively rare compared to more common syllables. The character is fully supported in modern fonts and systems that handle Korean script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC58 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byals |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뱘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뱘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB1 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC58 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc58 |