U+BC9B "벛" Hangul Syllable Beoc Unicode Character
U+BC9B "벛" Hangul Syllable Beoc is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup), the medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant "ㅊ" (chieut). This syllable, romanized as "beoc" using the Revised Romanization of Korean, is not a common or frequently used character in everyday Korean vocabulary, as its pronunciation and usage are largely confined to specific archaic, dialectal, or specialized linguistic contexts. It functions as a single block character within the Hangul Syllables Unicode block, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations from the Korean alphabet, ensuring that each distinct syllable like "벛" has its own unique code point for consistent digital representation and text processing across platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC9B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Beoc |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC9B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC9B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc9b |