U+BE5F "빟" Hangul Syllable Bih Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
빟
U+BE5F "빟" Hangul Syllable Bih is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "bih." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄇ (bieup, sounding like a soft "b") with the medial vowel ᅵ (i, like the English "ee" or French "i"), and the final consonant ᄒ (hieut, representing an "h" sound). As a precomposed syllable, it is a single codepoint in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which was introduced to standardize digital text processing by providing a complete set of all possible Korean syllables, ensuring consistent rendering across different devices and software. This character is used in written Korean to represent a specific lexical or grammatical syllable unit.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BE5F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bih |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 빟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 빟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB9 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBE5F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BE5F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ube5f |