U+BE5F "빟" Hangul Syllable Bih Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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