U+BE31 "븱" Hangul Syllable Byilg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BE31 "븱" Hangul Syllable Byilg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (b), the medial vowel "ㅠ" (yu), and the final consonant "ㄺ" (lg). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it was encoded to efficiently represent Korean text through a standardized, single code point rather than requiring separate components. This syllable is pronounced as "byilg" in Revised Romanization of Korean and is used in written Korean for specific lexical items, though it is relatively rare compared to more common Hangul syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+BE31
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Byilg
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
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 븱
HTML Hex Encoding 븱
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB8 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBE31
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BE31
C/C++/Java Escape \ube31

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