U+BEF7 "뻷" Hangul Syllable Bbelb Unicode Character
U+BEF7 "뻷" Hangul Syllable Bbelb is a single precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "bbelb." It is formed from the initial consonant ᄈ (ssangbieup, a double "b" sound), the medial vowel ㅔ (e, as in "bed"), and the final consonant ᆲ (bieup with a double consonant cluster effectively producing a "lb" ending). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial, medial, and final jamo into individual code points for efficient text processing. In standard Korean, this syllable is extremely rare or nonexistent in common vocabulary, but it is defined by the Unicode standard to ensure complete coverage of the Hangul syllable set.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BEF7 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bbelb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뻷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뻷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xBB 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBEF7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BEF7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubef7 |