U+BCAE "벮" Hangul Syllable Belp Unicode Character
U+BCAE "벮" Hangul Syllable Belp is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅂ” (b), the vowel “ㅔ” (e), and the final consonant “ㄼ” (lp). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encompasses all possible syllables formed from the modern Korean alphabet using a logical grouping of initial, medial, and final characters. Although it is a valid and codified character in the Unicode standard, the syllable “벮” is rarely encountered in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, as it typically appears only in specialized or transliterated contexts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures comprehensive text processing for Korean, supporting the complete range of theoretical syllable combinations even when they are uncommon in actual usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCAE |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Belp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCAE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCAE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubcae |