U+BEA8 "뺨" Hangul Syllable Bbyam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뺨
U+BEA8 "뺨" Hangul Syllable Bbyam is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the sound "bbyam." It is formed from the initial consonant "ㅃ" (ssangbieup, a tense double "b") combined with the medial vowel "ㅑ" (ya) and the final consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, "m"), resulting in the phonetic value [p͈jam]. In Korean, the word "뺨" directly translates to "cheek," referring to the side of the face, and is commonly used in everyday vocabulary, such as in phrases like "뺨을 맞다" (to be slapped on the cheek). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) in the Unicode Standard, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BEA8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbyam |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뺨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뺨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xBA 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBEA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BEA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubea8 |