U+BD1E "봞" Hangul Syllable Bwalp Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BD1E "봞" Hangul Syllable Bwalp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetically complex block "bwalp" formed from the initial consonant ㅂ (b), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㄹㅂ (lp). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded as a single character to facilitate text processing and display, ensuring that this specific syllable can be represented without needing to combine individual jamo components. In standard modern Korean, this syllable is exceptionally rare and does not appear in common vocabulary, making it primarily a typographic or linguistic encoding reference rather than a practical part of everyday written Korean.

General Properties

Code Point U+BD1E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bwalp
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
"ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 봞
HTML Hex Encoding 봞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB4 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBD1E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BD1E
C/C++/Java Escape \ubd1e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter