U+BC87 "벇" Hangul Syllable Beogs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BC87 "벇" Hangul Syllable Beogs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "beoks." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㄳ (giyeok-siot), which acts as a compound final. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables, and is used in written Korean to represent a specific phonetic unit. While not among the most common syllables in everyday Korean vocabulary, it appears in certain words or contexts where the sound "beogs" is needed, typically in formal or literary texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+BC87
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Beogs
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "버" U+BC84 Hangul Syllable Beo
"ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 벇
HTML Hex Encoding 벇
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB2 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBC87
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BC87
C/C++/Java Escape \ubc87

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter