U+BCEC "볬" Hangul Syllable Byess Unicode Character
U+BCEC "볬" Hangul Syllable Byess is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing a specific phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup), the vowel "ㅖ" (ye), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ssang ssang), which together produce the sound "byess." This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all logically possible combinations of initial, medial, and final jamo (letters) into individual code points for efficient text processing. Although not a frequently used syllable in everyday Korean vocabulary, it is a valid and linguistically significant form that demonstrates the systematic and modular nature of the Hangul script, allowing for the precise representation of sounds in written Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCEC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 볬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 볬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB3 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCEC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCEC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubcec |