U+BEC4 "뻄" Hangul Syllable Bbyaem Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뻄
U+BEC4 "뻄" Hangul Syllable Bbyaem is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system known as Hangul, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "bb" (a tense or double "b" sound), the medial vowel "yae" (a palatalized "ae" sound), and the final consonant "m". As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character was added to encode the syllable as a single unit, which simplifies text processing and display for languages that use Hangul. In Korean, "뻄" is not a commonly used standalone word but exemplifies the expansive Unicode coverage of syllables that account for the systematic combination of Korean phonemes, facilitating accurate representation of the language in digital formats.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BEC4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbyaem |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뻄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뻄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xBB 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBEC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BEC4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubec4 |