U+BCAF "벯" Hangul Syllable Belh Unicode Character
U+BCAF "벯" Hangul Syllable Belh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (b), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㅀ" (lh). This character is part of the extensive Hangul Syllables block within Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed from the Korean alphabet in a single, atomic character rather than requiring separate combining marks for each jamo. Although "벯" is a valid and correctly formed syllable in Korean phonology, it is not commonly encountered in everyday Korean vocabulary, as words containing the "ㅀ" cluster in this specific configuration are rare or obsolete. Nonetheless, its inclusion in Unicode ensures complete coverage for historical texts, linguistic analysis, and any potential future or specialized use in the Korean written language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCAF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Belh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCAF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubcaf |