U+BD25 "봥" Hangul Syllable Bwang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
봥
U+BD25 "봥" Hangul Syllable Bwang is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "bwang," formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup, /b/), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa, /wa/), and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung, /ŋ/). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean letters as single characters for efficient text processing and display. While not a common word in everyday Korean, "봥" may appear in specialized vocabulary, transliterations, or as a typographical placeholder within digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD25 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bwang |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 봥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 봥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB4 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD25 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD25 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd25 |