U+BE40 "빀" Hangul Syllable Byik Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
빀
U+BE40 "빀" Hangul Syllable Byik is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language. It represents the sound "byik," formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅂ" (b), the medial vowel "ㅣ" (i), and the final consonant "ㅋ" (k). As part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, it was encoded to facilitate digital representation of Korean text, allowing this specific syllable to be typed, displayed, and processed as a single character. While not among the most frequently used syllables in everyday Korean, it appears in some vocabulary and demonstrates the systematic structure of the Hangul writing system, where characters are logically arranged by their phonetic components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BE40 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Byik |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 빀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 빀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB9 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBE40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BE40 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ube40 |