U+BCE9 "볩" Hangul Syllable Byeb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
볩
U+BCE9 "볩" Hangul Syllable Byeb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, pronounced like the English 'b'), the medial vowel "ㅖ" (ye, similar to the 'ye' in "yes"), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (bieup), resulting in the sound "byeb." This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all logically possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet, and it is used in written Korean to denote the syllable "볩" as part of standard text processing and digital typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCE9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byeb |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 볩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 볩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB3 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCE9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCE9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubce9 |