U+BE23 "븣" Hangul Syllable Beuc Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BE23 "븣" Hangul Syllable Beuc is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "beuc," formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅡ (eu), and the final consonant ㅊ (chieut). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which systematically encodes all possible syllable combinations in modern Korean orthography. Its primary function is to allow text rendering and processing of Korean words that include this specific syllable, such as in historical or technical linguistic contexts, though it is not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary.

General Properties

Code Point U+BE23
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Beuc
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
"ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 븣
HTML Hex Encoding 븣
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB8 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBE23
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BE23
C/C++/Java Escape \ube23

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