U+BCA0 "베" Hangul Syllable Be Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
베
U+BCA0 "베" Hangul Syllable Be is a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system, representing the sound "be," which combines the initial consonant ㅂ (b) with the vowel ㅔ (e). It is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Hangul Syllables block, which was designed to include all possible syllable combinations in modern Korean, allowing for efficient text processing and display. This character is commonly used in Korean words such as "베개" (pillow) and "배" (boat or pear), though its specific sound differs from the latter due to the vowel distinction.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCA0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Be |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄇ" U+1107 Hangul Choseong Pieup "ᅦ" U+1166 Hangul Jungseong E |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 베 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 베 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCA0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCA0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubca0 |