U+BCD1 "병" Hangul Syllable Byeong Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
병
U+BCD1 "병" Hangul Syllable Byeong is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ieung) as a batchim. This syllable is used in a wide range of Korean vocabulary, carrying meanings such as "bottle," "sickness," or "soldier" depending on the specific word it appears in, like "물병" (mulbyeong, water bottle) or "전염병" (jeonyeombyeong, epidemic). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it serves as a single encoded character for efficient text processing and display, reflecting the systematic nature of the Korean alphabet's syllable construction.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCD1 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byeong |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 병 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 병 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB3 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCD1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCD1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubcd1 |