U+BCCB "볋" Hangul Syllable Byeolh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BCCB "볋" Hangul Syllable Byeolh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup, similar to 'b'), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo, a 'y' sound followed by 'eo'), and the final consonant ㅀ (rieul-hieut, a complex coda pronounced as a light 'l' followed by an 'h' sound). This specific syllable is not common in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, but it appears in some native words or archaic forms, and it is assigned a unique code point and block within Unicode as part of the Hangul Syllables range (AC00–D7AF) to ensure consistent digital representation and compatibility across systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+BCCB
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Byeolh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 볋
HTML Hex Encoding 볋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB3 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBCCB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BCCB
C/C++/Java Escape \ubccb

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