U+BCC6 "볆" Hangul Syllable Byeolm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BCC6 "볆" Hangul Syllable Byeolm is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "byeolm," which is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant cluster ㄻ (rieul-mieum). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a range of precomposed syllables that encode modern Korean writing by combining individual jamo characters into single codepoints for efficient text processing. While "볆" is an officially valid syllable in the Korean writing system, it is extremely rare in everyday vocabulary, appearing primarily in specialized or archaic contexts rather than common words.

General Properties

Code Point U+BCC6
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Byeolm
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
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 볆
HTML Hex Encoding 볆
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB3 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBCC6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BCC6
C/C++/Java Escape \ubcc6

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