U+BCAC "벬" Hangul Syllable Bels Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BCAC "벬" Hangul Syllable Bels is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup), the vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul). This syllable represents the sound "bels" and is part of the extensive set of Hangul syllables encoded in Unicode to support digital representation of the Korean language. While not a common word in everyday Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic and phonetic nature of Hangul, where individual jamo letters are stacked and arranged into syllabic blocks to produce specific pronunciations.

General Properties

Code Point U+BCAC
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bels
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
"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 벬
HTML Hex Encoding 벬
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB2 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBCAC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BCAC
C/C++/Java Escape \ubcac

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