U+BCB0 "벰" Hangul Syllable Bem Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BCB0 "벰" Hangul Syllable Bem is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, representing the "b" sound), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e, representing the "eh" sound), and the final consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, representing the "m" sound), resulting in the phonetic value of "bem". This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all 11,172 possible syllabic combinations of Korean jamo characters, and it is used in written Korean to represent a specific syllable within words or morphemes. Like all Hangul syllables, it functions as a single typographic unit, aiding in the logical and visual structure of Korean text.

General Properties

Code Point U+BCB0
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bem
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
"ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 벰
HTML Hex Encoding 벰
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB2 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBCB0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BCB0
C/C++/Java Escape \ubcb0

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