U+BE5B "빛" Hangul Syllable Bic Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
빛
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 |