U+BC24 "밤" Hangul Syllable Bam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
밤
U+BC24 "밤" Hangul Syllable Bam is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "bam." This character is composed of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, sounding like "b") and the vowel "ㅏ" (a, sounding like "ah") combined with the final consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, sounding like "m"). In Korean, "밤" has two primary meanings: it can refer to "night" or "evening," as in the time after sunset, or it can denote a "chestnut," the edible nut from a chestnut tree. The syllable is widely used in everyday Korean vocabulary, appearing in common words such as "밤하늘" (bamhaneul) meaning "night sky" and "밤색" (bamsaek) meaning "chestnut brown" color.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC24 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bam |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "바" U+BC14 Hangul Syllable Ba "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 밤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 밤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC24 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC24 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc24 |