U+BC6D "뱭" Hangul Syllable Byaenj Unicode Character
U+BC6D "뱭" Hangul Syllable Byaenj is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "byaenj." It combines the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, pronounced like a soft "b"), the medial vowel "ㅒ" (yae, a diphthong similar to "yae" in "yawn" but shorter), and the final consonant "ㅀ" (rieul-hieut, which creates a "l-t" or soft "j" ending sound). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard, which encodes all possible combinations of initial, medial, and final jamo (letters) in a single code point to facilitate efficient text processing and display. While this specific syllable is uncommon in everyday Korean vocabulary, it exemplifies the systematic and combinatorial nature of Hangul, which can generate thousands of syllables from a limited set of phonetic building blocks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC6D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byaenj |
| 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 "ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뱭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뱭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB1 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC6D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC6D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc6d |