U+BE79 "빹" Hangul Syllable Bbat Unicode Character
U+BE79 "빹" Hangul Syllable Bbat is a rarely used but valid Hangul syllable in the modern Korean writing system, composed of the initial consonant ᄈ (a double "b" sound), the vowel ᅡ ("a"), and the final consonant ᇀ ("t"). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean alphabetic letters into precomposed syllables for efficient text processing. While not commonly encountered in everyday vocabulary, this syllable demonstrates the systematic nature of the Korean script, where tensed consonants and standard vowels combine to produce a full range of phonetic possibilities, though its actual usage in written Korean is extremely limited, often confined to specialized linguistic contexts or historical documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BE79 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbat |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 빹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 빹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB9 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBE79 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BE79 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ube79 |