U+BCF1 "볱" Hangul Syllable Byet Unicode Character
U+BCF1 "볱" Hangul Syllable Byet is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "bieup" (ㅂ), the vowel "ye" (ㅖ), and the final consonant "tieut" (ㅌ). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it encodes the sound "byet" which does not correspond to a common Korean word but demonstrates the systematic structural nature of the Korean alphabet, where syllables are formed by combining individual jamo characters into a single encoded unit. This character is used primarily in digital text processing for representing Korean script and is not frequently encountered in everyday vocabulary, serving more as a theoretical or technical example of Unicode's comprehensive encoding of all possible Hangul syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BCF1 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byet |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 볱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 볱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB3 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBCF1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BCF1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubcf1 |