U+BE18 "븘" Hangul Syllable Beuls Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BE18 "븘" Hangul Syllable Beuls is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the sound "beuls" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅡ (eu), and the final consonant cluster ㄹㅅ (rieul-siot). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which contains over 11,000 prearranged syllables used for writing Korean. This specific syllable, though valid in the orthographic system, is rarely encountered in contemporary Korean vocabulary, as it does not form a common word on its own. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation and processing for historical or linguistic texts that may require such precise phonetic combinations.

General Properties

Code Point U+BE18
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Beuls
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
"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 븘
HTML Hex Encoding 븘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB8 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBE18
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BE18
C/C++/Java Escape \ube18

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