U+BD23 "봣" Hangul Syllable Bwas Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
봣
U+BD23 "봣" Hangul Syllable Bwas is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “b” (ㅂ), the medial vowel “wa” (ㅘ), and the final consonant “s” (ㅅ). This specific form, known as a jamo composition, is encoded as a single character to simplify text processing and display, as it is part of a standardized syllabic block that allows Korean script to be typed and rendered efficiently across digital platforms. The syllable itself is a valid, though not highly frequent, component of Korean vocabulary, appearing in certain verbal conjugations or loanword transcriptions where the sound “bwas” is needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD23 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bwas |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 봣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 봣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB4 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD23 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD23 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd23 |