U+BCC9 "볉" Hangul Syllable Byeolt Unicode Character
U+BCC9 "볉" Hangul Syllable Byeolt is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "byeolt" and formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant cluster ㄾ (rieul thieut). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters as single unified glyphs. In practical usage, "볉" is a rare syllable in contemporary Korean vocabulary, but it appears in certain contexts such as phonetic transcriptions or in the spelling of some proper nouns and archaic terms. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that Korean text can be digitally represented and processed consistently across different platforms and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCC9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byeolt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 볉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 볉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB3 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCC9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubcc9 |