U+BE47 "빇" Hangul Syllable Bigs Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
빇
U+BE47 "빇" Hangul Syllable Bigs is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing a single syllabic block made up of the initial consonant ᄇ (bieup), the vowel ᅵ (i), and the final consonant ᆪ (bieup-sios, which is a double consonant cluster pronounced as "k" or "gs" depending on phonological context). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it allows for efficient encoding of modern Korean text where such syllables are used, though the sound "bigs" is relatively rare in actual Korean vocabulary and may appear in transliterations or specialized contexts. This character thus demonstrates the systematic nature of Hangul, where individual jamo (letters) are combined into syllabic units to represent Korean phonology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BE47 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bigs |
| 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 "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 빇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 빇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB9 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBE47 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BE47 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ube47 |