U+BE15 "븕" Hangul Syllable Beulg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BE15 "븕" Hangul Syllable Beulg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup), the medial vowel "ㅡ" (eu), and the final consonant "ㄺ" (rieul-giyeok), which together produce the sound "beulg". As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character allows for the efficient digital representation of a single jamo sequence that would otherwise be encoded as individual components. While not commonly found in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, it is a valid syllable in the comprehensive system that supports the full range of Korean text, including historical or technical terms.

General Properties

Code Point U+BE15
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Beulg
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
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 븕
HTML Hex Encoding 븕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB8 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBE15
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BE15
C/C++/Java Escape \ube15

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