U+BEAD "뺭" Hangul Syllable Bbyang Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BEAD "뺭" Hangul Syllable Bbyang is a precomposed Korean Hangul syllable representing the sound "bbyang," formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅃ” (ssangbieup, a tense bilabial stop), the medial vowel “ㅑ” (ya), and the final consonant “ㅇ” (ieung, which in this terminal position creates the sound “ng”). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is used in modern Korean orthography to write words or names that require this particular phonetic combination. While it is not among the most frequently used syllables in everyday Korean text, it exemplifies the systematic and modular nature of the Hangul writing system, where each syllable block is encoded as a distinct character for efficient digital representation.

General Properties

Code Point U+BEAD
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbyang
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뺭
HTML Hex Encoding 뺭
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xBA 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBEAD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BEAD
C/C++/Java Escape \ubead

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