U+BC5C "뱜" Hangul Syllable Byam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뱜
U+BC5C "뱜" Hangul Syllable Byam is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound “byam,” formed from the initial consonant “bieup” (ㅂ), the medial vowel “ya” (ㅑ), and the final consonant “mieum” (ㅁ). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean writing system. While this specific syllable does not commonly appear in modern standard Korean vocabulary, it exists as a valid, typable character used in digital text processing and could be encountered in historical or regional usage, loanwords, or phonetic transcription.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC5C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byam |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뱜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뱜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB1 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC5C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc5c |