U+BE5C "빜" Hangul Syllable Bik Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
빜
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 |