U+BE6E "빮" Hangul Syllable Bbalp Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BE6E "빮" Hangul Syllable Bbalp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (b), the medial vowel "ㅏ" (a), and the final consonant "ㄼ" (which is pronounced as the cluster lbp or lp). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables that encode the full range of possible modern Korean syllabic forms. The character is used in written Korean to denote a specific syllable that may appear in native vocabulary or loanwords, though it is relatively uncommon in everyday modern texts. Like all Hangul syllables, it is structurally composed of individual jamo (letters) arranged in a square block form, and its Unicode encoding allows for consistent digital representation across platforms and systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+BE6E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbalp
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
"ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 빮
HTML Hex Encoding 빮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB9 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBE6E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BE6E
C/C++/Java Escape \ube6e

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