U+BCE1 "볡" Hangul Syllable Byelg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BCE1 "볡" Hangul Syllable Byelg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "by" (ㅂ and ㅕ combined as a digraph), the vowel "e" (ㅔ), and the final consonant "lg" (ㄹ and ㄱ as a complex coda). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables formed algorithmically from the Korean alphabet's initial, medial, and final jamo components. While "볡" is a valid and officially recognized syllable in the Korean script, it is extremely rare in everyday Korean language use, appearing only in specialized or archaic vocabulary rather than in common words or modern texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+BCE1
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Byelg
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
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 볡
HTML Hex Encoding 볡
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB3 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBCE1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BCE1
C/C++/Java Escape \ubce1

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