U+BE7A "빺" Hangul Syllable Bbap Unicode Character
U+BE7A "빺" Hangul Syllable Bbap is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the consonants “ㅃ” (a tense bilabial stop) and “ㅂ” (a bilabial stop) forming an initial cluster, with the vowel “ㅏ” (a central open vowel) and a final consonant “ㅂ,” resulting in the sound “bbap.” It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed from the Korean alphabet using a systematic algorithmic arrangement of initial, medial, and final jamo characters. While this specific syllable is not a common word in modern Korean, it demonstrates the structural completeness of the Unicode Hangul encoding, which supports over 11,000 syllables for linguistic representation and digital text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BE7A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbap |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 빺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 빺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB9 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBE7A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BE7A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ube7a |