U+BE59 "빙" Hangul Syllable Bing Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
빙
U+BE59 "빙" Hangul Syllable Bing is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung). It represents the sound "bing" and is used in various Korean words, such as those meaning "ice" (as in 빙수, bingsu, a shaved ice dessert) or "circle" (as in 빙글빙글, binggeulbinggeul, meaning round and round). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character enables efficient text encoding for the Korean language, allowing digital representation of a frequently used syllable without needing to combine individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BE59 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bing |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 빙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 빙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB9 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBE59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BE59 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ube59 |