U+BCA4 "벤" Hangul Syllable Ben Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
벤
U+BCA4 "벤" Hangul Syllable Ben is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic cluster "ben," formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup) with the vowel ㅔ (e) and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is used in written Korean to form words or morphemes, such as in the common word 벤치 (bench, meaning a bench or seat), and it reflects the efficient syllabic structure of Hangul where each character maps to a distinct sound unit.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCA4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ben |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCA4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCA4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubca4 |