U+BE59 "빙" Hangul Syllable Bing Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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