U+BCBD "벽" Hangul Syllable Byeog Unicode Character
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 |