U+BC38 "밸" Hangul Syllable Bael Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+BC38 "밸" Hangul Syllable Bael is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, sounding like "b"), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae, sounding like "eh" as in "bed"), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul, sounding like "l"), forming the syllable "bael." While this syllable does not frequently appear in common Korean vocabulary, it can be found in specific words, such as "밸브" (baelbeu), the Korean term for "valve," a loanword from English.
General Properties
Code Point
U+BC38
Name
Hangul Syllable Bael
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
밸
HTML Hex Encoding
밸
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEB 0xB0 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding
0xBC38
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000BC38
C/C++/Java Escape
\ubc38
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Hangul