U+BC97 "벗" Hangul Syllable Beos Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
벗
U+BC97 "벗" Hangul Syllable Beos is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "beot". This character is constructed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㅅ (siot), making it a closed syllable. In the Korean language, this syllable forms the basis of several common words, most notably the noun "벗" (beot), which means "friend" or "companion." The character is encoded in the Unicode standard within the Hangul Syllables block, allowing for consistent digital representation and processing of Korean text across different platforms and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC97 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Beos |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC97 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc97 |