U+BE47 "빇" Hangul Syllable Bigs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter