U+BE5C "빜" Hangul Syllable Bik Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BE5C "빜" Hangul Syllable Bik is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup), the medial vowel "ㅣ" (i), and the final consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), which together are pronounced as "bik." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllable blocks that were encoded to allow for efficient digital representation of Korean text. In contemporary usage, 빜 is an uncommon syllable and may appear in transliterations of foreign words or in technical linguistic contexts, though it is not frequently encountered in everyday Korean vocabulary.

General Properties

Code Point U+BE5C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bik
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
"ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 빜
HTML Hex Encoding 빜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB9 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBE5C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BE5C
C/C++/Java Escape \ube5c

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