U+BCC8 "볈" Hangul Syllable Byeols Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BCC8 "볈" Hangul Syllable Byeols is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "byeols." This character is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant cluster ㄹㅅ (rieul-siot), which together produce the syllable pronounced as "byeols." As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is used in written Korean to represent this specific combined sound, often appearing in vocabulary where the syllable carries lexical or grammatical meaning.

General Properties

Code Point U+BCC8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Byeols
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
"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 볈
HTML Hex Encoding 볈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB3 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBCC8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BCC8
C/C++/Java Escape \ubcc8

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