U+BC8D "벍" Hangul Syllable Beolg Unicode Character
U+BC8D "벍" Hangul Syllable Beolg is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of an initial consonant "ㅂ" (b), a medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and a final consonant cluster "ㄺ" (lg). This syllable, pronounced approximately as "beolg" in standard Korean, is encoded as a single character within the Unicode Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) to facilitate efficient text processing and display in digital environments. While "벍" is not a common or frequently used syllable in modern Korean lexicon, its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that all possible combinations of Hangul Jamo, following the systematic ordering defined by the Korean national standard KS X 1001 and expanded in Unicode, are representable without the need for dynamic composition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC8D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Beolg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC8D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC8D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc8d |