U+BCAB "벫" Hangul Syllable Belb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
벫
U+BCAB "벫" Hangul Syllable Belb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "belb" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (b), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant cluster "ㄹㅂ" (lb). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean letters, and is used primarily in written Korean to denote this specific syllable. While not among the most frequently used syllables, it appears in certain Korean words, including the verb stem "벫" from "벺다" meaning to be bright or gleaming, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent representation across digital platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCAB |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Belb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCAB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCAB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubcab |