U+BE44 "비" Hangul Syllable Bi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
비
U+BE44 "비" Hangul Syllable Bi is a single syllable from the modern Korean Hangul alphabet, composed of the consonant ㅂ (bieup) and the vowel ㅣ (i), and it is pronounced "bi." In Korean, this character carries several important meanings, most notably the noun "rain," but it can also mean "comparison" or "ratio" when used in different contexts or as part of compound words. As a fundamental building block of the Korean writing system, "비" appears frequently in everyday language, from weather forecasts to academic and technical discussions, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across all modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BE44 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bi |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄇ" U+1107 Hangul Choseong Pieup "ᅵ" U+1175 Hangul Jungseong I |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 비 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 비 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB9 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBE44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BE44 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ube44 |