U+BD28 "봨" Hangul Syllable Bwak Unicode Character
U+BD28 "봨" Hangul Syllable Bwak is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound /bwak/. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅂ (bieup) with the medial vowel ㅘ (wa) and the final consonant ᆨ (bieup as a final, representing the /k/ sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single, precomposed form for efficient digital text processing. As a valid and used syllable in the Korean language, it can be found in words and proper names, though it is relatively less common compared to simpler CV syllables, and its inclusion ensures complete coverage of the Hangul syllabary for accurate representation and interchange.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD28 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bwak |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 봨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 봨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB4 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD28 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd28 |