U+BC2A "밪" Hangul Syllable Baj Unicode Character
U+BC2A "밪" Hangul Syllable Baj is a precomposed syllable representing "Baj" in the Korean writing system Hangul, specifically formed by the consonant ᄇ (bieup, sound /b/) and the vowel ᅡ (a, sound /a/) with a final consonant ᄌ (jieut, sound /d/ or /t/), which together produce the phonetic value of "baj" or "bat" depending on its position in a word. This character is part of the larger Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) in the Unicode Standard, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants as single code points for efficient text processing. While "밪" is a valid Hangul syllable, it is relatively rare in modern Korean usage, appearing mainly in specialized vocabulary, loanword transcriptions, or historical texts rather than in common everyday speech or writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BC2A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Baj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 밪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 밪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB0 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBC2A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BC2A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubc2a |