U+BE31 "븱" Hangul Syllable Byilg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
븱
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 |