U+BC88 "번" Hangul Syllable Beon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+BC88 "번" Hangul Syllable Beon is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "beon". It is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup) and the vowel ㅓ (eo) with the final consonant ㄴ (nieun). Linguistically, it is a common syllable in the Korean language, appearing in words like 번호 (beonho) meaning "number" and 번역 (beonyeok) meaning "translation". This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support modern Korean text processing and typography, and it falls within the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables that cover all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants.
General Properties
Code Point
U+BC88
Name
Hangul Syllable Beon
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
번
HTML Hex Encoding
번
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEB 0xB2 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding
0xBC88
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000BC88
C/C++/Java Escape
\ubc88
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Hangul