What 벖 means
It writes one spoken syllable in Korean.
Hangul joins three jamo (letters) here: initial ㅂ, vowel ㅓ, and final ㅄ. Unicode can also represent the syllable as the separate letters ᄇ + ᅥ + ᆹ.
King Sejong and court scholars had developed Hangul by 1443; it was promulgated in 1446 to represent Korean clearly and make writing easier to learn. In different fonts, strokes or spacing can vary while the character remains 벖.
Questions people ask
1Why does 벖 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 벖
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType BC96, then Alt+X to get 벖.
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 beobs”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType bc96, then Enter or Space.
HTML
벖CSS
\BC96Korean two-set keyboard
Type ㅂ, ㅓ, ㅂ, then ㅅ; the keyboard combines the final pair into ㅄ and forms 벖.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
벖
HTML hex
벖
CSS content
content: "\BC96";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%B2%96
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.