U+BCB9 "벹" Hangul Syllable Bet Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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