U+BD32 "봲" Hangul Syllable Bwaenh Unicode Character
U+BD32 "봲" Hangul Syllable Bwaenh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅂ" (b), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㄶ" (nh). It is encoded in Unicode's Hangul Syllables block, which covers all 11,172 possible syllables formed from the basic and compound jamo characters of Hangul. This particular syllable, pronounced roughly as "bwaen" with a tense or aspirated nasal ending, is used in written Korean to convey specific lexical items or morphological forms, though it is relatively rare compared to more common syllables. The character was included in Unicode as part of the comprehensive standardization of Korean text for digital representation, ensuring consistent processing across computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+BD32 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Bwaenh |
| 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 "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 봲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 봲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0xB4 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xBD32 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000BD32 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ubd32 |