U+BE57 "빗" Hangul Syllable Bis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
빗
U+BE57 "빗" Hangul Syllable Bis is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "bis." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant ㅅ (siot), and its most common meaning in Korean is "comb," used for grooming hair. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet, and it is widely used in contemporary Korean text for everyday vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BE57 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bis |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 빗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 빗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB9 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBE57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BE57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ube57 |