U+BE5B "빛" Hangul Syllable Bic Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BE5B "빛" Hangul Syllable Bic is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "bit" and holding the core meaning of "light" in the Korean language. This character is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant ㅊ (chieut), and it is encoded as a single code point in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block (AC00 D7AF). Its common usage encompasses both literal illumination, such as sunlight or lamplight, and figurative concepts like hope or brilliance, making it a fundamental lexical element in Korean texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+BE5B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bic
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
"ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 빛
HTML Hex Encoding 빛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB9 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBE5B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BE5B
C/C++/Java Escape \ube5b

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