U+BC9E "벞" Hangul Syllable Beop Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BC9E "벞" Hangul Syllable Beop is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "beop". It is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup) and the vowel ㅓ (eo), combined with the final consonant ㅍ (pieup) to create a closed syllable. As part of the Hangul Syllables block, this character is used in written Korean to encode a specific lexical syllable without requiring separate composition of its individual jamo components, facilitating text processing and rendering in digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+BC9E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Beop
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
"ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 벞
HTML Hex Encoding 벞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB2 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBC9E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BC9E
C/C++/Java Escape \ubc9e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter