U+BCA4 "벤" Hangul Syllable Ben Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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