U+BC99 "벙" Hangul Syllable Beong Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
벙
U+BC99 "벙" Hangul Syllable Beong is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung), which results in the sound "beong." As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it represents a complete phonetic unit commonly used in Korean words and can be found in terms such as "벙어리" (beong-eori), meaning mute or speechless person, or "벙개" (beong-gae), referring to a social gathering. This character exemplifies the systematic structure of Hangul, where jamo components are arranged to form a single, readable syllable.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC99 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Beong |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC99 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC99 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc99 |