U+BC5F "뱟" Hangul Syllable Byas Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뱟
U+BC5F "뱟" Hangul Syllable Byas is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅂ” (bieup), the medial vowel “ㅑ” (ya), and the final consonant “ㅅ” (siot), yielding the sound “byas.” This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, where thousands of such syllables are encoded as single code points to simplify text processing in Korean. While the syllable “뱟” is considered a valid linguistic construction within the systematic structure of Hangul, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC5F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byas |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뱟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뱟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB1 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC5F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC5F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc5f |