U+BE38 "븸" Hangul Syllable Byim Unicode Character
U+BE38 "븸" Hangul Syllable Byim is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, pronounced like the English "b") and the medial vowel "ㅟ" (wi, pronounced like the English "wee"), with the final consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, pronounced like the English "m"). This syllable is part of the extensive Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes entire syllabic blocks as single characters to facilitate efficient text processing and display in digital environments. As a relatively rare syllable in contemporary Korean usage, "븸" exemplifies the systematic and logical structure of Hangul, where individual jamo letters are combined into distinct syllabic units, each with its own unique code point for consistent representation across different platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BE38 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byim |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 븸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 븸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB8 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBE38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BE38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ube38 |