U+BC88 "번" Hangul Syllable Beon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
번
U+BC88 "번" Hangul Syllable Beon is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "beon". It is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup) and the vowel ㅓ (eo) with the final consonant ㄴ (nieun). Linguistically, it is a common syllable in the Korean language, appearing in words like 번호 (beonho) meaning "number" and 번역 (beonyeok) meaning "translation". This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support modern Korean text processing and typography, and it falls within the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables that cover all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC88 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Beon |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 번 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 번 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc88 |