U+BE78 "빸" Hangul Syllable Bbak Unicode Character
U+BE78 "빸" Hangul Syllable Bbak is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the phonetic value "ppak." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅃ (ssangbieup, representing a tense "p" sound) with the vowel ㅏ (a) and the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok, representing a "k" sound). This syllable is a defined part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which was designed to support the vast number of possible syllable blocks in Korean by encoding them as individual characters rather than requiring dynamic composition. In Korean text, "빸" is a legitimate but relatively uncommon syllable, primarily appearing in specific vocabulary or transcriptions, and it is used correctly in contextually appropriate written Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BE78 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbak |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 빸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 빸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB9 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBE78 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BE78 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ube78 |