U+BC60 "뱠" Hangul Syllable Byass Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BC60 "뱠" Hangul Syllable Byass is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "byass." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅑ (ya), and the final consonant ㅅ (siot), following the standard syllabic block structure of Hangul. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all possible combinations of lead consonants, medial vowels, and tail consonants as defined by the Korean standard. In practical use, 뱠 is found in Korean text to transcribe native or loanwords that contain the "byass" sound, such as in the onomatopoeic expression 뱨뱹 (byaetbyeap) or in transliterations of foreign terms.

General Properties

Code Point U+BC60
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Byass
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
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뱠
HTML Hex Encoding 뱠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB1 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBC60
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BC60
C/C++/Java Escape \ubc60

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