U+BEA4 "뺤" Hangul Syllable Bbyals Unicode Character
U+BEA4 "뺤" Hangul Syllable Bbyals is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅃ" (ssangbieup, a tense bilabial stop), the medial vowel "ㅑ" (ya), and the final consonant "ㄹㅅ" (rieul and shiot acting as a compound final cluster, pronounced as a tense "t" sound in standard Korean). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters in a single coded character for efficient text processing. Although this syllable is grammatically valid and may appear in some written texts or names, it is considered extremely rare in everyday Korean vocabulary, largely due to the limited occurrence of the complex final consonant cluster "ㄹㅅ" combined with a tense initial consonant.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BEA4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbyals |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뺘" U+BE98 Hangul Syllable Bbya "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뺤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뺤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xBA 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBEA4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BEA4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubea4 |