U+BD15 "봕" Hangul Syllable Bwanj Unicode Character
U+BD15 "봕" Hangul Syllable Bwanj is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "bwanj" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㄵ (nieun-jieut). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet using the standard initial, medial, and final jamo. In practice, "봕" is an exceedingly rare syllable in contemporary Korean, as it does not correspond to any common word, making its use largely limited to phonetic transcription, historical texts, or computational contexts. Its inclusion ensures complete coverage of the theoretically generated 11,172 Hangul syllables, facilitating accurate text processing and rendering in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD15 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bwanj |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "봐" U+BD10 Hangul Syllable Bwa "ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 봕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 봕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB4 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD15 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD15 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd15 |