U+BE0C "브" Hangul Syllable Beu Unicode Character
U+BE0C "브" Hangul Syllable Beu is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, formed by combining the consonant ㅂ (bieup, representing the sound /b/) with the vowel ㅡ (eu, representing the sound /ɯ/). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible two- and three-letter syllable combinations in the Korean writing system through algorithmic allocation based on the lead, vowel, and tail jamo (letters). Used in everyday Korean text, "브" commonly appears in words like 브랜드 (beuraendeu, meaning "brand") and 브라우저 (beuraujeo, meaning "browser"), and it also functions as a phonetic representation for loanwords and foreign sounds, notably appearing in the onomatopoeic expression 브르르 (beureureu), which describes a shivering or vibrating sound or sensation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BE0C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Beu |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄇ" U+1107 Hangul Choseong Pieup "ᅳ" U+1173 Hangul Jungseong Eu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 브 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 브 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB8 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBE0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BE0C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ube0c |