U+BD22 "봢" Hangul Syllable Bwabs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+BD22 "봢" Hangul Syllable Bwabs is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "b" (ㅂ), the medial vowel "wa" (ㅘ), and the final consonant "bs" (ㅄ). Encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, this character is part of the systematic syllabic alphabet used for the Korean language, where individual jamo letters are stacked into square blocks. It is seldom used in contemporary Korean writing but demonstrates the robust encoding of the Korean writing system in Unicode, ensuring faithful digital representation of historically compiled or regionally variant syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+BD22
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Bwabs
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
"ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 봢
HTML Hex Encoding 봢
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0xB4 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xBD22
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000BD22
C/C++/Java Escape \ubd22

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