U+BCB3 "벳" Hangul Syllable Bes Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BCB3 "벳" Hangul Syllable Bes is a precomposed syllabic block representing the Korean syllable pronounced "bet" in the Revised Romanization system. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup, equivalent to "b") and the vowel ㅔ (e, pronounced like "e" in "bed") with the final consonant ㅅ (siot, equivalent to "s"). As a standard element of the modern Korean Hangul writing system, this character is used in various Korean words, such as "벳지" (betji, a loanword for "badge"), and is encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which was designed to include all possible syllable combinations in the Korean language.

General Properties

Code Point U+BCB3
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bes
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
"ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 벳
HTML Hex Encoding 벳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB2 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBCB3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BCB3
C/C++/Java Escape \ubcb3

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