U+BCB5 "벵" Hangul Syllable Beng Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BCB5 "벵" Hangul Syllable Beng is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "beng" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup) and the medial vowel ㅔ (e) with the final consonant ㅇ (ieung). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible precomposed syllables for the Korean alphabet, and is used in the Korean language to form words phonetically, typically appearing in contexts such as technical terms, onomatopoeia, or loanwords rather than in common everyday vocabulary.

General Properties

Code Point U+BCB5
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Beng
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 벵
HTML Hex Encoding 벵
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB2 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBCB5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BCB5
C/C++/Java Escape \ubcb5

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