U+BCB8 "벸" Hangul Syllable Bek Unicode Character
U+BCB8 "벸" Hangul Syllable Bek is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "bek" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅂ (b) and the vowel ㅔ (e), followed by the final consonant ㅅ (t/s). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet, and it is used in written Korean to denote specific words or morphemes where this exact syllabic combination occurs. As with other Hangul syllables, "벸" follows the standard left-to-right, top-to-bottom compositional structure of the script, and its encoding simplifies text processing by treating each syllable as a single code point rather than a sequence of individual jamo characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCB8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubcb8 |