U+BEEF "뻯" Hangul Syllable Bbegs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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