U+BCE6 "볦" Hangul Syllable Byelp Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BCE6 "볦" Hangul Syllable Byelp is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, specifically representing the phonetic value "byelp." This syllable is formed from an initial consonant (bieup, "ㅂ"), a medial vowel (ye, "ㅖ"), and a final consonant (rieul, "ㄹ") combined with a following "p" sound from the final consonant (bieup, "ㅂ"), resulting in a complex coda. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block (AC00-D7AF) in the Unicode standard, which encodes all 11,172 possible modern Korean syllables by combining initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants. While rarely used in contemporary Korean, this syllable appears in historical texts, specialized dictionaries, or as a phonetic representation in linguistic studies.

General Properties

Code Point U+BCE6
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Byelp
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
"ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 볦
HTML Hex Encoding 볦
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB3 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBCE6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BCE6
C/C++/Java Escape \ubce6

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