U+BD26 "봦" Hangul Syllable Bwaj Unicode Character
U+BD26 "봦" Hangul Syllable Bwaj is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, combining the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, sounding like "b") with the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa, a diphthong of "o" and "a") and the final consonant "ㅈ" (jieut, sounding like "j" or "ch"). This specific syllable, pronounced roughly as "bwahj" in English approximation, represents a relatively rare sound in Korean, as diphthong-vowel and consonant combinations like "bwaj" do not frequently occur in everyday vocabulary. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode Standard, its codepoint U+BD26 was assigned to ensure consistent digital representation across platforms, allowing the character to be used in text processing, typography, and communication in Korean and related linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD26 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bwaj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 봦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 봦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB4 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD26 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD26 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd26 |