U+BCB9 "벹" Hangul Syllable Bet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
벹
U+BCB9 "벹" Hangul Syllable Bet is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "bet" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㅌ (tieut). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed by Korean jamo letters, and it is used in written Korean to represent a specific phonetic unit. While not among the most common syllables in everyday Korean text, "벹" appears in certain lexical contexts and demonstrates the systematic, featural organization of Hangul, where each syllable block is graphically stacked into a single cell for efficient digital representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCB9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bet |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 벹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 벹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB2 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCB9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCB9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubcb9 |