U+BC8C "벌" Hangul Syllable Beol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
벌
U+BC8C "벌" Hangul Syllable Beol is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "beol". It is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul), which are combined into a single, precomposed glyph as part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode. This character is widely used in the Korean language, appearing in common words such as "벌" meaning "bee" or "punishment", "벌다" meaning "to earn", and "벌써" meaning "already", among many others.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC8C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Beol |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC8C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc8c |