U+BC48 "뱈" Hangul Syllable Baek Unicode Character

U+BC48 "뱈" Hangul Syllable Baek is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, sounding like "b") and the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae, sounding like "eh" or "æ"), followed by the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok, sounding like "k"). This syllable is not among the most common in everyday Korean vocabulary, but it appears in certain formal or literary contexts, such as in the archaic or poetic term "뱈돌" (baekdol), which refers to a type of quartz or milky stone, and it is included in the Hangul Syllables Unicode block (AC00–D7AF), which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean jamo into precomposed forms for efficient digital text processing.