U+BC6C "뱬" Hangul Syllable Byaen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뱬
U+BC6C "뱬" Hangul Syllable Byaen is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "byaen." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄇ (bieup, equivalent to "b") with the medial vowel ㅒ (yae) and the final consonant ᄂ (nieun, equivalent to "n"). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was encoded to efficiently represent the thousands of possible syllable combinations in the Korean writing system. While "뱬" is a valid and typable syllable, it is not a common word in standard Korean vocabulary and is rarely used in everyday speech or text, serving more as a placeholder or a phonetic construct for transliteration.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC6C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byaen |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뱨" U+BC68 Hangul Syllable Byae "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뱬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뱬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB1 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC6C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC6C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc6c |