U+BCA3 "벣" Hangul Syllable Begs Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
벣
U+BCA3 "벣" Hangul Syllable Begs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "begs" formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant cluster ㄳ (giyeok siot). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block and is encoded as a single codepoint rather than as a sequence of individual jamo components, following the modern South Korean syllabic ordering in Unicode. While not a commonly used syllable in everyday Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic combinatorial nature of the Hangul writing system where all possible legal consonant vowel consonant combinations are assigned unique codepoints.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCA3 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Begs |
| 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 "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCA3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCA3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubca3 |