U+BE91 "뺑" Hangul Syllable Bbaeng Unicode Character
U+BE91 "뺑" Hangul Syllable Bbaeng is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ppaeng." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅃ (a tensed or double 'b' sound) and the medial vowelㅐ (the vowel 'ae'), combined with the final consonant ㅇ (the silent 'ng' ending that shapes the syllable's nasal quality). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) of the Unicode Standard, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters into single code points for efficient text processing. The syllable "뺑" is used in Korean for onomatopoeic words or specific nouns, such as 뺑뺑이 (ppaengppaengi) referring to a spinning top or a repetitive, dizzying motion, and it appears in written Korean contexts where precise phonetic representation of the tensed initial consonant is required for correct meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BE91 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbaeng |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뺑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뺑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xBA 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBE91 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BE91 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ube91 |