U+BCD4 "볔" Hangul Syllable Byeok Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
볔
U+BCD4 "볔" Hangul Syllable Byeok is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic value "byeok." This character is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok), which together produce the sound "byeok." It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo letters into single codepoints for efficient text processing. The syllable "볔" is used in Korean vocabulary, though it is not one of the most common syllables in everyday language. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper representation and digital interoperability for Korean text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCD4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byeok |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 볔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 볔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB3 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCD4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCD4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubcd4 |