U+BE6A "빪" Hangul Syllable Bbalm Unicode Character
U+BE6A "빪" Hangul Syllable Bbalm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅃ” (a tense bilabial stop, romanized as 'bb'), the medial vowel “ㅏ” (the open central unrounded vowel 'a'), and the final consonant “ㄻ” (the cluster 'lm', pronounced as a double consonant with a preceding 'l' sound). This syllable represents a pronounced, tense version of the sound "balm" and is used in the Korean language as part of its standard orthography, typically appearing in native or sino-Korean vocabulary where such a phonetic structure occurs. As a single code point in the Hangul Syllables block (AC00 D7AF range), it allows for efficient text processing and display without requiring individual letter decomposition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BE6A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbalm |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "빠" U+BE60 Hangul Syllable Bba "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 빪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 빪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB9 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBE6A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BE6A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ube6a |