U+BC61 "뱡" Hangul Syllable Byang Unicode Character
U+BC61 "뱡" Hangul Syllable Byang is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup), the medial vowel "ㅑ" (ya), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ieung), resulting in the phonetic value "byang." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which was encoded in Unicode to efficiently represent the thousands of possible syllable blocks in modern and historical Korean, enabling proper digital text processing, display, and storage for the language. While "뱡" is a valid and recognized syllable, it is relatively rare in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, appearing mostly in specialized, dialectal, or less common words, but its inclusion in Unicode ensures comprehensive support for all possible Hangul combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC61 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byang |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뱡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뱡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB1 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC61 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC61 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc61 |