U+BEA5 "뺥" Hangul Syllable Bbyalt Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BEA5 "뺥" Hangul Syllable Bbyalt is a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant double bieup (ㅃ), the medial vowel ya (ㅑ), and the final consonant ᆱ, which represents a velar nasal followed by a labial stop, and is pronounced approximately as "ppyeom" in standard Korean. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard and is used to represent a specific phonetic unit in modern and historic Korean texts. Its encoding enables proper digital display and text processing of the Korean language, particularly for syllables that include complex final consonant clusters, though it remains less common in everyday modern Korean compared to simpler syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+BEA5
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbyalt
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
"ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뺥
HTML Hex Encoding 뺥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xBA 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBEA5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BEA5
C/C++/Java Escape \ubea5

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