U+BCE1 "볡" Hangul Syllable Byelg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
볡
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 |