U+BD20 "봠" Hangul Syllable Bwam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
봠
U+BD20 "봠" Hangul Syllable Bwam is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed from the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, representing a "b" sound), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa, a diphthong), and the final consonant "ㅁ" (mieum, an "m" sound), combining to create the phonetic value "bwam." As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character represents a valid but relatively uncommon syllable in the Korean language, used in specific words or contexts to denote a distinct phonetic unit within the script’s systematic inventory of characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD20 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bwam |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 봠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 봠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB4 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD20 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD20 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd20 |