U+BE45 "빅" Hangul Syllable Big Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
빅
U+BE45 "빅" Hangul Syllable Big is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "big." This character is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok), which together produce a single syllable block. In Korean, "빅" is used as a standalone morpheme, often appearing in loanwords and compound terms such as "빅데이터" (big data) or "빅뱅" (Big Bang), where it carries the meaning of "big" borrowed from English. As part of the Hangul Syllables Unicode block, it is encoded for digital text representation and is commonly utilized in modern Korean computing and typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BE45 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Big |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "비" U+BE44 Hangul Syllable Bi "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 빅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 빅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB9 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBE45 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BE45 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ube45 |