U+BC9F "벟" Hangul Syllable Beoh Unicode Character
U+BC9F "벟" Hangul Syllable Beoh is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "beoh" which combines the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup) with the vowel "ㅓ" (eo) and the final consonant "ㅎ" (hieuh) to form a complete phonetic unit. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is encoded as a single codepoint to facilitate efficient text processing and display, and it is primarily used in modern Korean orthography for writing words that contain this specific syllable. While "벟" is not one of the most common syllables in everyday Korean vocabulary, its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that all possible syllable combinations in the Korean writing system are represented for accurate digital representation and linguistic analysis.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC9F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Beoh |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC9F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC9F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc9f |