U+BC9A "벚" Hangul Syllable Beoj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
벚
U+BC9A "벚" Hangul Syllable Beoj is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "beot." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㅈ (jieut), which together create the syllable block used in Korean orthography for words such as 벚꽃 (beot-kkot), meaning "cherry blossom." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters in a single codepoint for efficient text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC9A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Beoj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC9A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC9A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc9a |