U+BE16 "븖" Hangul Syllable Beulm Unicode Character
U+BE16 "븖" Hangul Syllable Beulm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "beulm." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅡ (eu), and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum), following the standard block-based structure of Hangul syllables. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations resulting from the systematic arrangement of Korean consonants and vowels into two-dimensional syllabic blocks. While "븖" is a valid and correctly formed syllable according to Hangul orthography, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, making it a rare or obsolete formation that primarily exists to ensure comprehensive coverage of the script within the Unicode standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BE16 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Beulm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 븖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 븖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB8 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBE16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BE16 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ube16 |