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Glyph for U+BC30
Source: Noto CJK

U+BC30 Hangul Syllable Bae

U+BC30 was added in Unicode version 2.0 in 1996. It belongs to the block U+AC00 to U+D7AF Hangul Syllables in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Hangul script.

The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+1107 Hangul Choseong Pieup, Glyph for U+1162 Hangul Jungseong Ae. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+BC30 forms a Korean syllable block with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Bae, also spelled Bai or Pae, is a Korean family name. The South Korean census of 2015 found 400,641 people by this surname, or less than 1% of the population. In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 96.8% of people with this family name spelled it in Latin letters as Bae. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 3.2%) included Bai, Pae, and Bea.

There are two different ways to write the name in hanja: the most common (裵), and an alternative (裴) which lacks the "stem" (亠, Radical 8) at the top. The most common character is also used to write the Chinese surname Pei, which is also the origin of the Vietnamese surname Bùi.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 48176
UTF-8 EB B0 B0
UTF-16 BC 30
UTF-32 00 00 BC 30
URL-Quoted %EB%B0%B0
HTML hex reference 배
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ë°°
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) B9 E8

Related Characters

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 2.0 (1996)
Unicode Name (na) HANGUL SYLLABLE BAE
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Hangul Syllables
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Hangul
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) canonical
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+1107 Hangul Choseong Pieup Glyph for U+1162 Hangul Jungseong Ae
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+BC30 Hangul Syllable Bae
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+BC30 Hangul Syllable Bae
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+BC30 Hangul Syllable Bae
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+BC30 Hangul Syllable Bae
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+BC30 Hangul Syllable Bae
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+BC30 Hangul Syllable Bae
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+BC30 Hangul Syllable Bae
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+BC30 Hangul Syllable Bae
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Hangul Syllable Type LV
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) No
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+BC30 Hangul Syllable Bae
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+BC30 Hangul Syllable Bae
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✔
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✔
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+BC30 Hangul Syllable Bae
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) LV Syllable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Hangul LV Syllable
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+BC30 Hangul Syllable Bae
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U