U+BC70 "뱰" Hangul Syllable Byael Unicode Character
U+BC70 "뱰" Hangul Syllable Byael is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (b), the medial vowel "ㅒ" (yae, pronounced like the "ye" in "yes" but slightly more open), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (l). This syllable, however, is notably rare in actual Korean vocabulary, as the vowel ㅒ itself is uncommon and typically appears only in a handful of native words or loanword transcriptions, such as in the word "뱐" (byeon). As a result, 뱰 is seldom encountered in everyday Korean text, making it an obscure character primarily of interest to linguists or those studying the full range of Hangul's orthographic possibilities rather than frequent readers of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC70 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byael |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뱰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뱰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB1 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC70 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc70 |