U+BE4E "빎" Hangul Syllable Bilm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BE4E "빎" Hangul Syllable Bilm is a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system, Hangul, that represents the phonetic construct "빎" pronounced as 'bilm'. It is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant cluster ㄻ (rieul-mieum), which indicates a double final consonant. This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables arranged in a systematic order based on the Korean alphabet. The syllable 빎 is relatively rare in modern Korean usage, as it does not commonly appear in everyday vocabulary, though it remains a valid and encoded representation of a theoretical combination of Korean jamo.

General Properties

Code Point U+BE4E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bilm
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
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 빎
HTML Hex Encoding 빎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB9 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBE4E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BE4E
C/C++/Java Escape \ube4e

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