U+BCD4 "볔" Hangul Syllable Byeok Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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