fsymbols
🔍
Loading symbols…
››
브

hangul syllable beu

Hangul syllable beu

By itself, 브 usually has no fixed meaning; it contributes one syllable sound inside a Korean word. Its standard Korean romanization is beu: the initial ㅂ falls between English b and p, while ㅡ is a vowel pronounced with the lips unrounded. Middle Korean once used -브- as an adjective-forming ending.

Text symbol
Also called
beu
Search it as
브 · meaning of 브 · type 브 on a Dubeolsik keyboard
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 브 means

Usually no: 브 contributes a syllable sound, not a definition. The meaning of 브 depends on its place in a Korean word; it does not translate on its own.

Hangul, the Korean writing system, joins consonant and vowel letters into syllable blocks; 브 combines ㅂ and ㅡ. Hangul was devised in 1443, and an explanatory book about it appeared in 1446.

In Middle Korean, -브- was an ending attached to a word to form an adjective. Its historical trail appears in 기쁘다 (“be glad”) and 슬프다 (“be sad”), whose modern spellings use 쁘 and 프.

Questions people ask

1

Why does 브 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 브

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType BE0C, then Alt+X to get 브.
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 beu”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType be0c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
브
CSS
\BE0C
Dubeolsik keyboard
To type 브 on a Dubeolsik (two-set) Korean keyboard, enable Korean input and press q then m; the input method joins ㅂ and ㅡ into 브.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
브
HTML hex
브
CSS content
content: "\BE0C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%B8%8C
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

ᄀᄁᄂᄃᄄᄅᄆᄇᄈᄉᄊᄋ

Korean syllables11,623 symbols

ᄀᄁᄂᄃᄄᄅᄆᄇᄈᄉᄊᄋ