U+BC73 "뱳" Hangul Syllable Byaelb Unicode Character
U+BC73 "뱳" Hangul Syllable Byaelb is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "byaelb," which is formed from the initial consonant bieup (ㅂ), the medial vowel yae (ㅒ), and the final consonant rieul-bieup (ㄼ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, specifically encoded in the range for modern Korean syllables that combine initial, medial, and final jamo (letters) into a single coded unit. In standard modern Korean, "뱳" is a rare or archaic syllable, as the combination of "ㅒ" with a complex final like "ㄼ" is not commonly used in contemporary vocabulary, but it demonstrates the theoretical completeness of the Hangul writing system, which can represent all possible phonetic syllable combinations. The character is primarily utilized in historical or linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC73 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byaelb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뱳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뱳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB1 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC73 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC73 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc73 |