U+BD21 "봡" Hangul Syllable Bwab Unicode Character
U+BD21 "봡" Hangul Syllable Bwab is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "b" (ㅂ), the medial vowel "wa" (ㅘ), and the final consonant "b" (ㅂ), resulting in the syllable "bwab." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 precomposed syllables to facilitate efficient text processing and display. While "봡" is a valid syllable in the Korean writing system, it is considered rare or obsolete in modern vocabulary, as it does not appear in common Korean words. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures comprehensive coverage of the language's syllabary for historical, linguistic, and digital representation purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD21 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bwab |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 봡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 봡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB4 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD21 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd21 |