U+BCA1 "벡" Hangul Syllable Beg Unicode Character
U+BCA1 "벡" Hangul Syllable Beg is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "beg." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok), following the standard morphological structure of Hangul syllables. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations for the modern Korean alphabet in a single plane, facilitating efficient digital text processing and display. The syllable "벡" itself is used in Korean vocabulary, though it is less common than similar syllables like "백" (baek), and its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper representation and interoperability across different platforms and languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCA1 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Beg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "베" U+BCA0 Hangul Syllable Be "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCA1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCA1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubca1 |