U+BCBA "벺" Hangul Syllable Bep Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BCBA "벺" Hangul Syllable Bep is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "비읍" (bieup, equivalent to 'b'), the medial vowel "에" (e, pronounced like the 'e' in 'bed'), and the final consonant "피읖" (pieup, equivalent to 'p'), resulting in the sound "bep." This character is part of the larger Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which includes all logically possible combinations of Hangul jamo (letters) arranged in a systematic order based on the Korean alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point U+BCBA
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bep
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
"ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 벺
HTML Hex Encoding 벺
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB2 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBCBA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BCBA
C/C++/Java Escape \ubcba

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