U+BE23 "븣" Hangul Syllable Beuc Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
븣
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 |