U+BC9C "벜" Hangul Syllable Beok Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
벜
U+BC9C "벜" Hangul Syllable Beok is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "Beok." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄇ (bieup, sounding like "b") with the medial vowel ᅥ (eo, sounding like "uh") and the final consonant ᄏ (kieuk, sounding like "k"). As part of the Hangul Syllables block allocated in Unicode for efficient encoding of modern Korean text, this character is used in written Korean and appears in various digital contexts such as word processing, web pages, and data systems that support Korean language content.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC9C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Beok |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc9c |