U+BCA8 "벨" Hangul Syllable Bel Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
벨
U+BCA8 "벨" Hangul Syllable Bel is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic value "bel." This character is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul), combining to create a syllable that is commonly used in Korean vocabulary, including in loanwords such as "벨트" (belt) or the English name "Bell." It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, a vast range of Unicode codepoints that encode all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet, and it serves as a standard text character for digital representation of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCA8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bel |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubca8 |