U+BE2B "븫" Hangul Syllable Byigs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BE2B "븫" Hangul Syllable Byigs is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅂ” (bieup, pronounced as b), the medial vowel “ㅟ” (wi, pronounced like the English we), and the final consonant “ㅅ” (siot, pronounced as s or t depending on context). This syllable is part of the modern Hangul syllabary, which organizes Korean sounds into block-like characters. While “븫” is a valid and permitted syllable in Unicode’s Hangul Syllables block, it is an extremely rare or obsolete form in contemporary Korean, as the combination “byigs” does not correspond to any common Korean word or natural pronunciation in standard usage. Its encoding reflects Unicode’s systematic approach to covering all possible syllable combinations within the Hangul orthography.

General Properties

Code Point U+BE2B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Byigs
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "븨" U+BE28 Hangul Syllable Byi
"ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 븫
HTML Hex Encoding 븫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB8 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBE2B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BE2B
C/C++/Java Escape \ube2b

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