U+BE7C "빼" Hangul Syllable Bbae Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BE7C "빼" Hangul Syllable Bbae is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "bbae." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅃ" (a tensed or double "b" sound) with the medial vowel "ㅐ" (the "ae" vowel, similar to the "a" in "cat"). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet, and it is commonly used in Korean writing for words such as "빼다" (to remove or take out) or in expressive contexts like "빼빼" (often an exclamation or onomatopoeia).

General Properties

Code Point U+BE7C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbae
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "ᄈ" U+1108 Hangul Choseong Ssangpieup
"ᅢ" U+1162 Hangul Jungseong Ae

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 빼
HTML Hex Encoding 빼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB9 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBE7C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BE7C
C/C++/Java Escape \ube7c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LV Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LV 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=LV
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter