U+BE12 "븒" Hangul Syllable Beunh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BE12 "븒" Hangul Syllable Beunh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "beunh." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, sounding like "b"), the medial vowel "ㅡ" (eu, a close back unrounded vowel), and the final consonant "ㄶ" (nh, a double consonant that adds a nasal release at the end). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is used in Korean text to represent a specific syllable block, contributing to the efficient encoding of the Korean language by allowing direct representation of combined jamo without requiring dynamic composition.

General Properties

Code Point U+BE12
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Beunh
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "브" U+BE0C Hangul Syllable Beu
"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 븒
HTML Hex Encoding 븒
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB8 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBE12
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BE12
C/C++/Java Escape \ube12

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter