U+BEC5 "뻅" Hangul Syllable Bbyaeb Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BEC5 "뻅" Hangul Syllable Bbyaeb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "bbyaeb" with a tensed initial consonant. It is formed from the initial consonant “ㅃ” (ssangbieup, a double "b/p" sound) and the medial vowel “ㅒ” (yae) followed by the final consonant “ㅂ” (bieup), all combined into a single block as part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode. This character is used in written Korean, where such tensed syllables distinguish meaning from their non-tensed counterparts, and it was added to the Unicode Standard to support full digital representation of the Korean alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point U+BEC5
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbyaeb
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
"ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뻅
HTML Hex Encoding 뻅
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xBB 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBEC5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BEC5
C/C++/Java Escape \ubec5

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