U+BE03 "븃" Hangul Syllable Byus Unicode Character
U+BE03 "븃" Hangul Syllable Byus is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, pronounced like the English "b" or "p"), the medial vowel "ㅠ" (yu, similar to the English "you"), and the final consonant "ㅅ" (siot, pronounced as a soft "t" sound at the end of a syllable). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is used in Korean text to write words that require this specific syllable, though it is relatively rare in common contemporary vocabulary compared to more frequent syllables. Its encoding allows digital systems to correctly display and process the syllable as a single unit, maintaining proper typographic and linguistic integrity for Korean language content.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BE03 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byus |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뷰" U+BDF0 Hangul Syllable Byu "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 븃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 븃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB8 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBE03 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BE03 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ube03 |