U+BC9F "벟" Hangul Syllable Beoh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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