U+BC8F "벏" Hangul Syllable Beolb Unicode Character
U+BC8F "벏" Hangul Syllable Beolb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅂ” (bieup, sounding like “b”), the medial vowel “ㅓ” (eo, sounding like “uh”), and the final consonant cluster “ㄼ” (rieul and bieup together, pronounced “lb”). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode all 11,172 possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet. This particular syllable is used in the Korean language for words such as “벏다” meaning “to change or exchange,” and its composition reflects the systematic and scientific structure of Hangul, where each character is a compact visual representation of its constituent sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC8F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Beolb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC8F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc8f |