U+BC7C "뱼" Hangul Syllable Byaess Unicode Character
U+BC7C "뱼" Hangul Syllable Byaess is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (b), the medial vowel "ㅒ" (yae), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ss), creating the syllable pronounced similarly to "byaess". As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is encoded to allow digital representation and processing of Korean text, facilitating the use of complex syllable blocks in computing environments without requiring separate combination of individual jamo components. This specific syllable is relatively rare in modern Korean vocabulary but demonstrates the systematic structure of the Korean alphabet, where characters are grouped into syllabic blocks that are distinct from the alphabetic components that form them.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC7C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byaess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뱼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뱼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB1 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC7C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC7C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc7c |