U+BE4C "빌" Hangul Syllable Bil Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BE4C "빌" Hangul Syllable Bil is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (b), the vowel "ㅣ" (i), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (l), resulting in the sound "bil". This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed from the Korean alphabet. As a standard element of written Korean, "빌" can function as a verb stem meaning "to pray" or "to borrow," depending on contextual usage, and it demonstrates the systematic and predictable structure of Hangul where each syllable is composed of distinct jamo components.

General Properties

Code Point U+BE4C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bil
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
"ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 빌
HTML Hex Encoding 빌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB9 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBE4C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BE4C
C/C++/Java Escape \ube4c

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