U+BEEF "뻯" Hangul Syllable Bbegs Unicode Character
U+BEEF "뻯" Hangul Syllable Bbegs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "bbegs" where the initial consonant is a tense, double "b" sound (ㅃ), followed by the vowel "e" (ㅔ), and ending with the final consonant cluster "gs" (ㄳ). It appears in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations formed from the Korean alphabet's initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants. While this specific syllable is rare in everyday Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic, combinatorial nature of Hangul, where thousands of syllabic blocks are constructed from a relatively small set of basic letters. U+BEEF is thus a functional but uncommon character, primarily of interest to linguists, typographers, and those working with full Korean text encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BEEF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbegs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뻬" U+BEEC Hangul Syllable Bbe "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뻯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뻯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xBB 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBEEF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BEEF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubeef |