U+BD2D "봭" Hangul Syllable Bwaeg Unicode Character
U+BD2D "봭" Hangul Syllable Bwaeg is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "bwaeg," formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, pronounced like "b"), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae, a diphthong resembling "wae"), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok, pronounced as a "k" or "g" stop). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, this character is encoded as a single code point for efficient text processing and display, and it is used in modern Korean writing to represent a syllable that may appear in loanwords, poetic language, or specialized vocabulary, though it is not among the most common syllables in everyday Korean. Its inclusion allows for complete coverage of systematically arranged Hangul syllables based on the Korean alphabet's combinatorial logic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD2D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bwaeg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "봬" U+BD2C Hangul Syllable Bwae "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 봭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 봭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB4 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD2D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD2D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd2d |