U+BD04 "봄" Hangul Syllable Bom Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
봄
U+BD04 "봄" Hangul Syllable Bom is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "bom." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup, /b/) and the medial vowel ㅗ (o, /o/), combined with the final consonant ㅁ (mieum, /m/). This syllable is a common Korean word meaning "spring," as in the season, and is used in everyday language, literature, and cultural contexts to refer to the time of year associated with renewal and blooming. As part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables used in contemporary Korean text, this character enables efficient encoding and display of the language without requiring separate combination of individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD04 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bom |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "보" U+BCF4 Hangul Syllable Bo "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 봄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 봄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB4 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD04 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD04 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd04 |