U+BE1A "븚" Hangul Syllable Beulp Unicode Character
U+BE1A "븚" Hangul Syllable Beulp is a specific precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, sounding like 'b'), the vowel "ㅡ" (eu, a close back unrounded vowel), and the final consonant cluster "ㄼ" (rieul-bieup, pronounced as 'lp' in this context). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean jamo characters into single code points to facilitate efficient text processing and display. While not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, it can appear in specialized or archaic contexts, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that the full range of Hangul syllables is digitally representable for accurate linguistic and historical documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BE1A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Beulp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 븚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 븚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB8 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBE1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BE1A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ube1a |