U+BC83 "벃" Hangul Syllable Byaeh Unicode Character
U+BC83 "벃" Hangul Syllable Byaeh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the consonant "ㅂ" (bieup) and the vowel "ㅒ" (yae), followed by the final consonant "ㅎ" (hieut), which together produce the sound "Byaeh." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, where thousands of such precomposed syllables are encoded to facilitate the efficient representation of the Korean writing system. While the syllable "벃" is technically valid according to Hangul's combinatorial rules, it is rarely used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary and is considered an obscure or archaic form, primarily serving as a placeholder or appearing in linguistic contexts rather than common text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC83 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byaeh |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC83 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC83 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc83 |