U+BCA3 "벣" Hangul Syllable Begs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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