U+BCA5 "벥" Hangul Syllable Benj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
벥
U+BCA5 "벥" Hangul Syllable Benj is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "benj." It is formed from the initial consonant ᄇ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㅈ (jieut), which together create a single block character as part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode. This specific syllable is used in the Korean language to write words such as "벼" (rice plant), and its inclusion in Unicode allows for the accurate digital representation and processing of modern Korean text without requiring separate combination of jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCA5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Benj |
| 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 "ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCA5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCA5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubca5 |