U+BD2B "봫" Hangul Syllable Bwah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+BD2B "봫" Hangul Syllable Bwah is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used for the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㅎ" (hieut). It represents the sound "bwah" and is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which systematically encodes all possible syllable blocks that can be formed with the standardized 11172 jamo combinations. While this specific syllable is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, it is available in the Unicode standard to ensure full script coverage for orthographic and historical accuracy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD2B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bwah |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 봫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 봫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB4 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD2B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD2B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd2b |