U+BCBD "벽" Hangul Syllable Byeog Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BCBD "벽" Hangul Syllable Byeog is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "byeog" and is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok) into a single, rectangular block. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes over 11,000 precomposed syllables used in the modern Korean writing system. Common meanings for this character include "wall" or "barrier," and it frequently appears in compound words such as 벽돌 (byeokdol, meaning "brick") and 벽장 (byeokjang, meaning "closet"). In Korean, it is written and read sequentially as ㅂ, ㅕ, ㄱ (bieup, yeo, giyeok) but packaged into one codepoint for digital text processing, reflecting the efficient design of Unicode to support the vast syllabic inventory of Hangul.

General Properties

Code Point U+BCBD
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Byeog
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "벼" U+BCBC Hangul Syllable Byeo
"ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 벽
HTML Hex Encoding 벽
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB2 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBCBD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BCBD
C/C++/Java Escape \ubcbd

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