U+BCD9 "볙" Hangul Syllable Byeg Unicode Character
U+BCD9 "볙" Hangul Syllable Byeg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "byeok" (or "byeg" in the Revised Romanization of Korean). It is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok), combined into a single block as is typical for Hangul syllable characters. This specific syllable is not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, but it is included in Unicode's vast Hangul Syllables block, which standardizes over 11,000 syllable combinations to support the full range of written Korean. Its inclusion ensures that historical, literary, or specialized texts can be accurately encoded and displayed across digital platforms, preserving linguistic completeness for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCD9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byeg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "볘" U+BCD8 Hangul Syllable Bye "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 볙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 볙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB3 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCD9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCD9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubcd9 |