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벣

hangul syllable begs

Hangul Syllable Begs

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As of 2026-09-13, 벣 has no established standalone meaning as a Korean word. In Korean text, the surrounding word gives it meaning; the character itself is one Hangul syllable. “BEGS” is Unicode’s component-based label, not a translation.

Text symbol

What 벣 means

Read 벣 as a syllable, not a message. It combines initial consonant ㅂ and vowel ㅔ. Its ending, called 받침, is ㄳ: two consonants closing the syllable. In a Korean word, the block contributes one syllable. “BEGS” is Unicode’s component-based label, not a translation.

Hangul’s origin is recorded in 1443; its explanatory book, Hunminjeongeum, appeared in 1446. The alphabet was created to make Korean writing accessible without first learning Chinese characters.

The name Hangeul became widespread in 1928, after earlier names including jeongeum, eonmun and gukmun.

Who writes 벣

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Questions people ask

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Why does 벣 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 벣

Search it as
벣 · U+BCA3 · hangul · Korean 2-set keyboard · 받침 · Begs
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType BCA3, then AltX to get 벣.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable begs”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType bca3, then Enter or Space.
HTML
벣
CSS
\BCA3
How do I type 벣 on a Korean keyboard?
On a Korean 2-set keyboard, press q, p, r, t: the input method combines ㅂ, ㅔ, ㄱ, ㅅ into 벣, joining the last two as ㄳ.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
벣
HTML hex
벣
CSS content
content: "\BCA3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%B2%A3
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols