U+BEAF "뺯" Hangul Syllable Bbyac Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BEAF "뺯" Hangul Syllable Bbyac is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "bbyac" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㅃ" (a tense bilabial stop), the vowel "ㅑ" (the diphthong "ya"), and the final consonant "ㅊ" (the aspirated palatal affricate "ch"). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes syllable blocks rather than their constituent jamo letters separately, allowing for efficient text processing and display in Korean digital environments. While this syllable may not be common in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the extensive combinatorial nature of the Hangul writing system, which can theoretically form thousands of pronounceable syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+BEAF
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbyac
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
"ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뺯
HTML Hex Encoding 뺯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xBA 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBEAF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BEAF
C/C++/Java Escape \ubeaf

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