U+BE8C "뺌" Hangul Syllable Bbaem Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BE8C "뺌" Hangul Syllable Bbaem is a precomposed Korean Hangul syllable representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅃ" (a tense or fortis bilabial stop), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (a front vowel pronounced like the 'a' in "cat"), and the final consonant "ㅁ" (the 'm' sound). This syllable is part of the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, formed as a compact unit according to the Unicode Standard's Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of initial consonants, medial vowels, and optional final consonants in a systematic, precomposed manner. In Korean, "뺌" would be pronounced like "ppaem" in English approximation and does not represent a common standalone word or root, though it could appear as a phonetic component within longer words or loanwords.

General Properties

Code Point U+BE8C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbaem
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "빼" U+BE7C Hangul Syllable Bbae
"ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뺌
HTML Hex Encoding 뺌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xBA 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBE8C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BE8C
C/C++/Java Escape \ube8c

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