U+BEC9 "뻉" Hangul Syllable Bbyaeng Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BEC9 "뻉" Hangul Syllable Bbyaeng is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅃ" (ssangbieup, representing a tense bilabial stop), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ieung, acting as a silent final or ng sound). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which systematically encodes all possible combinations of initial, medial, and final jamo in the Korean writing system. The character "뻉" itself is not among the most frequently used syllables in modern Korean, but it may appear in certain onomatopoeic words, transliterations, or specialized vocabulary, and it follows the standard phonetic and typographic rules of the Hangul alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point U+BEC9
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bbyaeng
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뻉
HTML Hex Encoding 뻉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xBB 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBEC9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BEC9
C/C++/Java Escape \ubec9

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