U+BC5A "뱚" Hangul Syllable Byalp Unicode Character
U+BC5A "뱚" Hangul Syllable Byalp is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which contains precomposed syllables combining initial consonants, vowels, and optional final consonants. This specific syllable is composed of the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅑ (ya), and the final consonant cluster ㅍ (pieup) with a preceding ㄹ (rieul) to form the complex coda "lp". Representing the phonetic value "byalp" in the Korean alphabet, this character is a modern typographic form used primarily in Korean text encoding, though it may be relatively rare in everyday language as it corresponds to a syllable that appears infrequently or in borrowed or dialectal words. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent representation across digital platforms, preserving the full range of Korean phonology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC5A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byalp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뱚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뱚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB1 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC5A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC5A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc5a |