U+BEBE "뺾" Hangul Syllable Bbyaelm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BEBE "뺾" Hangul Syllable Bbyaelm is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "bb" (a tense, doubled form of the bilabial stop), the medial vowel "yae" (a palatalized version of the vowel "ae"), and the final consonant "lm" (pronounced as a lateral followed by a bilabial nasal). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants in the Korean writing system. In practical usage, "뺾" is a rare and specialized syllable, not commonly found in everyday Korean vocabulary, but it technically exists within the phonetic inventory of the language, demonstrating the systematic and combinatorial nature of Hangul script encoding in Unicode.

General Properties

Code Point U+BEBE
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbyaelm
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뺴" U+BEB4 Hangul Syllable Bbyae
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뺾
HTML Hex Encoding 뺾
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xBA 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBEBE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BEBE
C/C++/Java Escape \ubebe

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