U+BD18 "봘" Hangul Syllable Bwal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
봘
U+BD18 "봘" Hangul Syllable Bwal is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "bwal." It is formed by the combination of the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup, producing a "b" sound) and the vowel ㅘ (wa, a diphthong), with the final consonant ㄹ (rieul, producing an "l" sound). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is used in written Korean to facilitate the accurate representation of syllables in text processing and digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD18 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bwal |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 봘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 봘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB4 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD18 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD18 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd18 |