U+BCC9 "볉" Hangul Syllable Byeolt Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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